VAT field

[Michalis Kamprianis]

   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
   :)

   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)?

   Thanks and regards
   Michalis


   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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