Re: Date manipulation

docdwarf_at_panix.com
Date: 12/26/03 

Date: 26 Dec 2003 14:23:56 -0500

In article <8jhouvgk3h1ub1ggrc96ahilfpj0vgi8sn@4ax.com>,
Ian Dalziel <iandalziel@lineone.net> wrote:
>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?

That depends on the system, I believe.

>"Taxable" and "Non-taxable"
>are shorthand for pre- and post- tax deductions.

That is one way to see them... another way is 'are taxes of any sort to be
applied to this income' or 'is this income to be considered free of
taxation'.

>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".

... and my point is that this is one way of doing it. Another way is to
say 'here we have a quantity to be applied against the paycheck; is this
quantity taxable or not? if it is taxable then apply the quantity in a
fashion which shows taxation, if not then not.'

DD

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