[Kmymoney] HowTo enter reinvestments of dividends?

[Allan]

On 28/09/14 18:39, David Houlden wrote:
> 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
>

Hi Dave

No, I don't think you misunderstand.  It is correct that it is possible 
to enter split fees, but I was trying to enter split interest amounts. 
Perhaps your way is OK, in fact in retrospect, it probably is, as I 
think an interest amount would be treated as income.

Allan