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

[Christopher Lam]

Hi Maf, you're welcome; thanks for letting me know.

The dates are printed  via gnucash's date-printer and will probably obey
the locale or general preferences setting. Try Preferences/Date&Time.

I'm still considering how to incorporate the UK rules into the current
merged report; I now know the sales/purchases accounts selection via
Income/Expense account-type is a design mishap; perhaps the next 4.x series
will request the sales/purchase acocunts separately. This means the UK-VAT
report (including the EC rules and the EC account tagging hacks) could then
be an optional switch in the GST Report.


On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 10:39, Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:

> 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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> Maf. King
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