[GNC-dev] [GNC] UK VAT and "Making Tax Digital"

[Maf. King]

Hi Christopher,

I've just submitted the first MTD VAT return using GC and the report you very 
kindly wrote.

The only glitch discovered in actual production use is that the dates exported 
by the report in to the CSV file and hence read by the bridging spreadsheet 
need to have a 4-digit year, the export is presently only 2 digits.

I had no EU transactions this quarter

but otherwise, no problems, the numbers all matched up to my old custom 
reports.

so thank you very much for the time to make this work.

best regards,
Maf.
 



On Wednesday, 12 June 2019 15:30:15 BST Christopher Lam wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I think it'll be reasonable for now to merge some infrastructure work in
> the transaction-report engine to allow CSV export.
> 
> uk-vat-report.scm would be a custom-report, added onto standard-reports or
> possibly config-user.scm on request, with caveat that the
> accounts-selection is not yet set in stone.
> 
> Ultimately it may be an idea to add onto the Tax-Info dialog to tag
> accounts, but I don't know how to do that.
> 
> C
> 
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 at 11:07, Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:
> > Hi Christopher,
> > 
> > thanks for the gentle prod.  I've been very busy for the last couple of
> > weeks,
> > and I apologise for not getting back to you sooner.
> > 
> > so far, the VAT report seems to work for me, I haven't spotted any glaring
> > problems, although I appreciate the limitations on the account selections
> > that
> > you mention, and I haven't explored deeply with anything other than my
> > normal
> > files.
> > 
> > it seems that MTD hasn't gone away (unfortunately) and would be a shame to
> > miss the release bundle, although I accept that this is still code which
> > is
> > beta-ish in nature, and I don't know the GC policy on including code which
> > may
> > still need some polish in a finished release.  However, I would also
> > counter
> > that the first real complete test of the workflow has to wait for July and
> > the
> > first return being prepared.
> > 
> > best regards,
> > Maf.
> > 
> > On Sunday, 9 June 2019 15:53:26 BST Christopher Lam wrote:
> > > Any final views on enabling CSV export of subtotals and VAT report? 3.6
> > > will be in preparation soon...
> > > 
> > > The VAT report is rather UK-specific regarding EC sales and I don't know
> > > rules for other EC countries. It'll be a shame to limit it to UK only,
> > > which means any other EC VAT report will need to duplicate and amend the
> > > report.
> > > 
> > > And while the selection of Sales/Purchases/VAT accounts is IMHO
> > > satisfactory, the tagging of EC accounts via account-description is
> > 
> > rather
> > 
> > > hackish, but possibly the easiest one available so far, unless we reuse
> > 
> > the
> > 
> > > Tax-Info dialog.
> > > 
> > > Unless the above questions are not finalised I wouldn't think it's
> > > appropriate to merge VAT-report.
> > 
> > --
> > Maf. King
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