Automatic Transactions

[da...@pathfinderfs.com]

The state of Hawaii imposes an excise tax on all business revenue which gets paid monthly. So every time I add an income/asset transaction pair, I would like beancount to automatically generate a calculated expense/liability transaction pair.

Then when the tax gets paid I record an asset/liability transaction pair.

I can do this with ledger. Does Beancount have something similar?

Thanks,
David

[Martin Blais]

Yes; write a plugin.

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[Martin Blais]

BTW, your plugin receives the entire stream of transactions.

You write a little bit of Python code to return a modified stream.

It's not as terse as Ledger's minilanguage for transformations, but much more flexible.

[da...@pathfinderfs.com]

Thanks,

Is there any documentation on the entry/transaction data structure used in the plug-in or is it a read the source situation?

[Martin Blais]

The source is profusely commented

https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/tip/beancount/core/data.py?fileviewer=file-view-default#data.py-169

On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 6:27 PM, <da...@pathfinderfs.com> wrote:

Thanks,

Is there any documentation on the entry/transaction data structure used in the plug-in or is it a read the source situation?

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