Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-09 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Geoffrey S. Mendelson, from the post of Sun, 06 Apr: On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:42:01AM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: Omer, 2. How to get the accounts notarized (or whatever) by a CPA? I don't think you would want to. In order for YOU to enter the data into an apporoved accounting

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-09 Thread Amos Shapira
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I chose to use a CPA because e saves me money of return that I would not know how, and because I trust him with papers more than myself, certainly worth spending 2200 NIS once a year (plus VAT :-) to be calm that the Tax

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-07 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Yuval Hager wrote: On Sunday 06 April 2008, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: All the data in Codefidence is entered by a non certified bookkeeper (but into an approved program) and Ernest Young, our auditors, found no fault in this procedure. May I ask which program you use? Is it

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-07 Thread David Suna
We have been using a DOS based program running under dosemu for the last few years. It works fine and makes the accountant happy. David Suna [EMAIL PROTECTED] Omer Zak wrote: I have been using an accounting program running in MS-DOS (!), but now (due to reasons into which I'll not go now)

Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Yuval Hager
Hi list, It's that time of year again (for submitting fiscal reports). This year I have everything under gnucash though! I was wondering what is the best way to file the reports to the accountant. Assuming he does not know or care about the software - What reports should I create and send to

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Omer Zak
If we are at this subject, can anyone, who has experience with using GNUCash in Israel, write an HOWTO about configuring GNUCash to meet the needs for micro-business accounting in Israel? Sample questions: 1. How to set up things so that VAT will be automatically calculated and credited to a VAT

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:42:01AM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: Omer, 2. How to get the accounts notarized (or whatever) by a CPA? I don't think you would want to. In order for YOU to enter the data into an apporoved accounting program, you must be a level 3 (as in 1 is the lowest) certified

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Omer Zak
Geoff, While I know that there are lots of complications and non-sense things in the Israeli tax laws, I am afraid that your point of view makes things more complicated than they really are. On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 10:14 +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: 2. How to get the accounts notarized (or

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Original message Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:13:26 +0300 From: Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel To: linux-il linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Geoff, While I know that there are lots of complications and non-sense things in the Israeli tax

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Yuval Hager
On Sunday 06 April 2008, Omer Zak wrote: If we are at this subject, can anyone, who has experience with using GNUCash in Israel, write an HOWTO about configuring GNUCash to meet the needs for micro-business accounting in Israel? Sample questions: 1. How to set up things so that VAT will be

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Ori Idan
In order to submit reports you must use a software authorized by the Israeli Tax authorities. GNUCash is not authorized as much as I know therefore no CPA will get reports from it. Sorry for the self advertising, however the only open source software I know that has Tax authorities is drorit

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ori Idan wrote: In order to submit reports you must use a software authorized by the Israeli Tax authorities. Just for the record, to the best of my knowledge, this is not so. You only need to certify your program with the tax authorities if you intend to *sell* it. Otherwise, a piece of paper

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Moish
Yuval Hager wrote: On Sunday 06 April 2008, Ori Idan wrote: In order to submit reports you must use a software authorized by the Israeli Tax authorities. GNUCash is not authorized as much as I know therefore no CPA will get reports from it. True. I am not trying to formally submit

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 04:24:00PM +0300, Yuval Hager wrote: I am not trying to formally submit those reports to the authorities. I just wanted to know which Gnucash reports are relevant for an Israeli accountant. I plan to print them (or send PDF) and hand them over for him to submit to

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Ori Idan
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 03:24:15PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Just for the record, to the best of my knowledge, this is not so. You only need to certify your program with the tax authorities if you intend to

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Yuval Hager
On Sunday 06 April 2008, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 04:24:00PM +0300, Yuval Hager wrote: I am not trying to formally submit those reports to the authorities. I just wanted to know which Gnucash reports are relevant for an Israeli accountant. I plan to print them

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: I'm not a laywer, but what I was told is that all business tax reports must be submitted from an approved program, with the data entered by a level 3 certified bookkeeper. Approved program, yes. Data entered by a level 3 certified bookkeeper - no. All the data

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Yuval Hager
On Sunday 06 April 2008, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: I'm not a laywer, but what I was told is that all business tax reports must be submitted from an approved program, with the data entered by a level 3 certified bookkeeper. Approved program, yes. Data entered by