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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> References
>
>    1. http://web.mit.edu/warlord/
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