GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 778482
View Lots Scrub process should account for commissions and fees
Last modified: 2018-06-29 23:54:18 UTC
The scrub process yields a gain value that does not account for commission or fee splits on a transaction. If a user enters a sale transaction and splits out the commission and fees, the scrub action will not catch this. While users can work around this by encapsulating their sales transactions in a generic "Net pricing" procedure, the scrub feature ought to accommodate users who wish to document their commissions and fees.
And how exactly do you propose that the scrub would be able to detect the commissions and fees, and to know the tax law in the user's jurisdiction about how to handle them?
For starters? How about having the "Splits Free" window include ALL the splits in the account, and not just buy and sell splits. Bug 778314 raises the point that pre-existing gains should be included for selection; I believe that including other splits in the account could be included as well. That way, should a user *wish* to document their commissions on a lot, they could select these splits and include them in the calculation.
A follow on might be to allow the user to designate one or more particular accounts for Commissions and Fees (either on a per-scrub or per-book basis), so that splits going to these designated accounts get assigned correctly.
If by "not catch this" you mean that the scrub code fails to net-out commissions and fees, then that's correct behavior--you can't do both, it's either-or--and there's nothing to fix here. (In reply to David from comment #2) > For starters? How about having the "Splits Free" window include ALL the > splits in the account, and not just buy and sell splits. Bug 778314 raises > the point that pre-existing gains should be included for selection; I > believe that including other splits in the account could be included as > well. That way, should a user *wish* to document their commissions on a lot, > they could select these splits and include them in the calculation. As you know, we have no need for duplicate bugs.
I note this bug has remained in "Needinfo" state, so... is this a nothing-to-fix-here, a duplicate or a genuine request that stands on its own ?
I think that it's a legitimate request. There's no way to do it automatically but it should be possible to add controls to the Scrub Lots dialog to enable adding commission and fee splits to the cap gain computation. The request is complimentary to bug 778314; someone undertaking one will likely want to do the other as well.
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