[GNC-dev] UK VAT - Making Tax Digital

[Wm]

On 01/11/2018 16:12, Clint Redwood wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I’ve been using GNUcash to manage my company accounts for 10 years, but a change in the UK law means that all VAT will need to be submitted electronically from an accounting package from April 2019.

That isn't actually true.

> Is anyone planning to implement the electronic VAT submission from GNUCash already?

Not that I am aware of.

> If not, I wrote a VAT return report years ago which I will try to adapt to submit the return electronically via the APIs
> 
> If so, how can I help?

Write the report in a way that people can pick it up in a SS, i.e. make 
it generally useful.  Show your thinking in the SS.  Leave out tax codes 
etc. reports like that are too person or situation specific.

> It would be a shame for all UK VAT registered gnucash users to have to move to a commercial alternative.

There isn't any need for that.  I do agree that there is a push for 
commercial alternatives, VAT isn't that complicated, just a case of 
recording stuff and doing some sums after all.

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Wm