[Kmymoney] HowTo enter reinvestments of dividends?

[David Houlden]

On Sunday 28 September 2014 18:09:01 Allan wrote:
> On 28/09/14 16:34, Stefan wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > how can i enter an automatically reinvested dividend for fonds where
> > parts of the dividend must be payed for taxes and cannot be
> > reinvested? German users probably know this...
> > 
> > I have a fond A:
> > dividend payed: 30,45 EUR
> > Tax (Kapitalertragsteuer): -8,36 EUR
> > Tax (Zinsabschlagsteuer): -0,45 EUR
> > 
> > Reinvestment: 21,65 EUR as 0,406 shares with 52,96 EUR per share
> > 
> > KMyMoney is hiding to much text input fields after selecting
> > "Reinvestment / Wiederanlage der Dividende" - therefor i cannot
> > enter it correctly, or, using the field for (split) charges it
> > calculates wrong values that i cannot change as needed.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Stefan
> 
> I thought this would be fairly straight forward, but No.
> 
> The Reinvest transaction appears to cope just with a straight-forward
> reinvestment, where the total dividend is used to purchase extra
> securities.
> 
> I was expecting to be able to use splits to account for the taxation
> aspects, however, as I discovered earlier today there is no split
> capability on reinvestments.
> 
> Further, it appears not possible to create new categories in the split
> editor, say for a fee.  If a new category is entered, it gets cleared
> when another field is entered, with no warning.  It's necessary to
> create the new categories first, then create the splits.
> 
> I'm afraid at the moment, it appears necessary to create multiple
> transactions to accomplish this.  Not very nice.
> 
> Please would you raise a bug report at https://bugs.kde.org.
> 
> Allan
Allan,

Maybe I'm not understanding Stefan's problem but I am on git head and 
when entering a reinvest dividend I can enter splits in the fees field to 
account for different taxes. The only thing that doesn't work is the 
creation of new categories in the split editor as you pointed out but it 
is possible to select existing categories and it works fine.

David