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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [FreeAcc] A free accounting software in QT (Alpha >
From:       Tony Bloomfield <tonyb.lx () btinternet ! com>
Date:       2008-09-17 9:05:23
Message-ID: 200809171005.23331.tonyb.lx () btinternet ! com
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> While you're talking finance modules - one thing that seems to be missing
> is the ability to import a country's tax tables.  I don't know whether
> there is a standard for those tables - i.e. whether all countries do them
> in the same format - but if it were possible to include this whole new
> possibilities open for the small business market.
>
> The biggest need for it is, of course, in payroll, but I suspect that there
> are other tax tables that are not suited to hand-entering.

A friend of mine used to work as a consultant to a large multi-national. She 
was an expert in tailoring a large  business accounting package which runs on 
another operating system. I've forgotten the name, but believe it was a 
German package, and considered the most flexible (and expensive!).

She made a small fortune travelling the world modifying the software for local 
conditions, mostly the tax situations, which changed regularly. Apparently 
they had looked at generalising things with tax tables, but found that the 
taxation bases in countries varied so much that it was all but impossible.

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Cheers,
TonyB
 
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