VAT field
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Jul 1 10:19:00 EDT 2014
Hi,
"Michalis Kamprianis" <michalis at linuxmail.org> writes:
> Thank you Derek for the reply
> that was my initial approach, to use one of the address fields, but
> it's only for storage, it can not be retrieved for use in the invoice
> eg.
> If there is a way and I missed it, I would really appreciate a pointer
> :)
If you put it into the 4th Address Line then it should be included
automagically.
> Or maybe it would be better to just add a function
> in engine/business-core.scm to just return address fields individually
> (in addition to the one that returns the whole Address structure)?
Those already exist. The "make table" is purely a helper function to
put it all together.
> Thanks and regards
> Michalis
-derek
>
> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 at 4:58 PM
> From: "Derek Atkins" <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> To: "Michalis Kamprianis" <michalis at linuxmail.org>
> Cc: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: VAT field
> Hi,
> "Michalis Kamprianis" <michalis at linuxmail.org> writes:
> > Hi all,
> > I have noticed that there is no VAT number field in any owner
> > (employee, customer, vendor).
> > Since this field is rather mandatory in the EU, (and it should
> probably
> > be included in several reports and of course invoices), I was
> thinking
> > of adding it, and creating the appropriate functions.
> > Is there a reason that it's not there, or is it just that nobody
> coded
> > it yet?
> The main reason is that the fields aren't simply extensible. However
> you could easily re-use one of the existing fields for the VAT ID, like
> the 4th row of the address, or perhaps the website field.
> > Kind regards
> > Michalis
> -derek
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