On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 01:50, Dave wrote: > Hi all, > > I use sql-ledger as well. http://www.sql-ledger.com/ > > It does GST and PST for Canada eh! But probably can be used for > Australian GST without too much trouble. > > It should be able to apply on the same invoice taxable and non-taxable > items/services. Each part or service you setup you can specify if it is > taxable.
I'm getting ready to move over to sql-ledger at the end of the finyear, but there are a couple of small issues that I have taken up with the author, esp in the development thread, which is what I am looking to use. > > -- > Dave Peters > > > > On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 05:06:52PM +1000, David wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, 9 May 2004, Hugh Madden wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > I realise this thread was done to death a few years back. > > > > > > Anyway, perhaps the situation has improved. > > > > > > I resent having to purchase myob or quicken and vmware simply to keep > > > track of my finances. > > > > > > I'm wondering how to go about: > > > BAS/STS/depreciating assets > > > > > > GNU Cash looks pretty awful in respect to GST. > > > > I've been using SQL-Ledger now for two years (two tax returns). It does > > the basic double entry accounting perfectly. It's a very active open > > source project with new releases coming all the time. > > > > It does GST very well - albeit with some problems relating to single > > invoices with mixed taxable/non-taxable items. I get around that without > > too much hassle, and in any case it's not all that common a situation. > > > > It doesn't do depreciation. That's something your accountant does (or > > yourself if you are smart enough). > > > > I highly recommend it. It's not perfect, but it's very good, bug-free and > > improving constantly. It's better than MYOB (which i used previously) and > > even if you pay for the support it's cheaper. It's written in > > Perl/Postgres. I believe you can even run it on Windows, so you can keep > > you vmware going if you wish ;-) > > > > > > > > > > > > Is there any good open office spreadsheets floating around, or have any > > > of the open source projects started to support australia tax? > > > > > > There must be a couple of hundred thousand home rolled systems around > > > australia, why aren't any of them open source and shared? > > > > > > cheers, > > > Hugh > > > > > > > > > -- > > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > > > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people <http://www.lannetlinux.com> ------------------------------------------ Flatter government, not fatter government - Get rid of the Australian states. ------------------------------------------ To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. - Scott Granneman, SecurityFocus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
