Investment Misc Expense Items do not post to an Expense Category

JSJones

When you post a Misc Expense Item directly into an Investment Account using Misc Expense, then selecting the drop category down box for Foreign Taxes Paid or Investment Fees - these do not get posted to an Expense Category and will not show up on an Expense Report. Currently, these items get posted to the Investment Account and also to the Cash account associated with that Investment Account. Help desk said to change the Advanced settings to Include Transfers. This does not work either - example a transfer from Checking to Savings is not a legitimate expense. The Foreign Taxes and Investment Fees MUST be posted directly into the Investment CASH ACCOUNT in order to show up on the Expense Summary reports. This also applies to Miscellaneous Income items posted directly into the Investment Account - these will not show up on the Income Summary if posted into the Investment Account. Both of these items must be posted directly into the cash account.

Jim_Harman

Which report are you running?

I don't see built-in Categories for foreign taxes paid or investment fees. Are these Categories that you created?

I entered a MiscExp for Taxes:Other and I see it in the Itemized Categories and Spending by Category reports.

The Income and Expense by Category report does not include investing accounts by default, so that might explain why you are not seeing these payments.

Also if you are looking at the Spending tab, for some reason that does not include MiscExp transactions. See this discussion

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7856065/spending-tab-vs-reports-spending-spending-by-category

JSJones

Here is a snippet. Foreign Taxes paid is a category on the Brokerage Reporting Statement. Yes, I created the Foreign Taxes Paid and Investment Fees categories to track these separately.

Jim_Harman

You have not answered my earlier question:

What report are you running when you see this problem?

q_lurker

Also, what is the structure of your accounts? If you have a cash account 'linked' to the investment account, the MiscExp should not show in the Investment account.

If you are not using the 'linked' cash model and have instead recorded this as a MiscExpX transaction using a specified category and a transfer account, the transaction will appear in both accounts as it typical of ant transfer transaction. The assigned category will only appear in the investment account. That investment account would need to be included in the applicable account selection for whatever report you are using. Investment accounts tend to not be included by default in some spending-type reports.

JSJones

The Report I am running is under Reports —> Spending —> Spending by Category.

Yes, my cash account is linked to the investment account.

Jim_Harman

Is the Investing side of the account included in the report?

JSJones

The investment side is included if I run Reports —>Spending —> Income and Expense by Category. However, the Foreign Taxes and Investment Fees do not show up on this report either.