Tax-aware book-keeping tool

[Antonio T. Sun]

Hi, 

Prefix: Phew, finally I finished preparing for my tax returns,
almost at the "last-minute", and I think it is high time for me to
retire my home-grown book-keeping practise for my tax returns, and
look for something that is more "off-the-shelf".

Request: I'm looking for a Linux based book-keeping tool to track
my expenses which is (better) aware of Canadian Tax laws.

Details: 

- 1st of all, I stress again that it is better to be a simple
  book-keeping tool, instead of an accounting software that forces
  me to do double entries.

- all I need to do, that I can think of currently, is to track my
  expenses: *when* I spend *how much*, that belongs to *which tax
  category*, and calculate yearly CCA for me as well.

- when next tax season comes, I can just get the *summary data*,
  having properly pro-rated according to Canadian Tax laws, and
  hand them over to my accountant, preferably in a format that
  popular accounting/tax-preparing software can accept.

Further: 

- Do you need to track your expenses?
- Do you use Linux solution to do that?
- How do you it?
- What else in your practises that I haven't thought of?

Could you post back or blog about it and give me a link please?

Thanks A LOT.

ATS

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