Re: Date manipulation

From: Ian Dalziel (iandalziel_at_lineone.net)
Date: 12/26/03

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    Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 14:38:47 +0000

    On 26 Dec 2003 09:00:08 -0500, docdwarf@panix.com wrote:

    >In article <h43ouvcesecmn1s1mq2hfvij176u91c3un@4ax.com>,
    >Ian Dalziel <iandalziel@lineone.net> wrote:
    >>On 24 Dec 2003 08:26:24 -0500, docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
    >>
    >>>... and it turned out that the President of the bought-out hospital was
    >>>the beneficiary of some rather... creative accounting; it seems that he'd
    >>>had a pre-tax deduction applied to his payroll profile, one which would,
    >>>every week, automatically take out one hundred pre-tax dollars...
    >>>
    >>>... and then somehow - *must* have been an accident because *everyone*
    >>>denied knowing *anything* about this - the VSAM file containing the
    >>>employee profiles got changed... and the sign-nibble on the COMP-3 field
    >>>for this deduction went from negative to positive, giving the man a
    >>>'negative deduction'...
    >>>
    >>
    >>That doesn't work, does it? A tax-free deduction is before the tax
    >>calculation, a tax-free addition is after the tax calculation -
    >>there's more than a sign involved.
    >
    >That's one way of doing it... but as there are some deductions which are
    >taxable and others which are not taxable I can see a structure in the
    >program which would determine this by, say, a flag set for the deduction
    >and queried during processing (IF DEDN-TXBL-SW = 'Y' PERFORM
    >DEDUCT-THE-TAX-RITUAL or suchlike); such a structure would allow, at the
    >level for the data, a change in the status of a deduction from taxable to
    >non-taxable without any code alterations.
    >

    Doesn't work like that, though, does it? "Taxable" and "Non-taxable"
    are shorthand for pre- and post- tax deductions. My point (feeble
    though it may have been) was that benefit to the recipient works the
    opposite way round for payments and deductions - a pre-tax deduction
    is "non-taxable" but a pre-tax payment is "taxable".

    Even if you performed the tax calculation separately on each
    payment/deduction, the difference would be the same - if you're paying
    it out, it's good if what comes out of your pocket is reduced by the
    tax percentage. If you're receiving it, you'd prefer what arrives in
    your pocket not to have been reduced.

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