I don't know if this is me just not understanding the syntax/bookkeeping, or if there's an actual bug here, so I figured I'd submit a report as a means of asking for either a fix, or for a clarification in the documentation.
I'm trying to mark gas fees as (small) capital gains events; this may or may not be necessary for direct transfers like I have in the example (the IRS has conflicting FAQ entries), but either way it would be proper for payments or swaps. The cost basis is indeed calculated correctly, and although I stripped the lots off of the minimum reproducer below, those are also being tracked correctly. However, breaking off a part of the lot to pay for the gas fees doesn't seem to be working:
$ cat tfer.journal
03-06 buy
assets:custodial 1.000000 ETH
assets:custodial -$1,980.78
03-09 transfer
assets:custodial -1.000000 ETH
assets:cold wallet 0.999601 ETH
expenses:fees:trading 0.000399 ETH @ $1,992.36
income:gains
$ hledger --version
hledger 1.99.1, freebsd-x86_64
$ hledger reg -f tfer.journal
2026-03-06 buy assets:custodial 1.000000 ETH 1.000000 ETH
assets:custodial $-1,980.78 $-1,980.78
1.000000 ETH
2026-03-09 transfer assets:custodial -1.000000 ETH $-1,980.78
assets:cold wallet 0.999601 ETH $-1,980.78
0.999601 ETH
ex:fees:trading 0.000399 ETH $-1,980.78
1.000000 ETH
income:gains $-0.79 $-1,981.57
0.000399 ETH 1.000399 ETHThe $0.79 difference in basis is showing up right where I'd expect it to, but a second copy of the fee is also being added to the same inferred posting. I know the gain is effectively appearing "magically" so far as the register goes, and that for proper double-entry bookkeeping there'd probably be an equity posting for the basis itself that would balance it, but (A) I've not put a lot of time into figuring out how to represent that when hledger seems like it'll do that for me via the cost syntax, and (B) even if I did I wouldn't expect that to require additional entries of the non-USD commodity. Am I doing something completely wrong here?
I don't know if this is me just not understanding the syntax/bookkeeping, or if there's an actual bug here, so I figured I'd submit a report as a means of asking for either a fix, or for a clarification in the documentation.
I'm trying to mark gas fees as (small) capital gains events; this may or may not be necessary for direct transfers like I have in the example (the IRS has conflicting FAQ entries), but either way it would be proper for payments or swaps. The cost basis is indeed calculated correctly, and although I stripped the lots off of the minimum reproducer below, those are also being tracked correctly. However, breaking off a part of the lot to pay for the gas fees doesn't seem to be working:
The $0.79 difference in basis is showing up right where I'd expect it to, but a second copy of the fee is also being added to the same inferred posting. I know the gain is effectively appearing "magically" so far as the register goes, and that for proper double-entry bookkeeping there'd probably be an equity posting for the basis itself that would balance it, but (A) I've not put a lot of time into figuring out how to represent that when hledger seems like it'll do that for me via the cost syntax, and (B) even if I did I wouldn't expect that to require additional entries of the non-USD commodity. Am I doing something completely wrong here?