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

[Maf. King]

Hi Christopher,
thanks, I've just subscribed to -devel

I can see no reason for anything other than GBP in a UK VAT return!  sensible 
restriction.

Maf.


On Thursday, 2 May 2019 16:44:59 BST Christopher Lam wrote:
> Maf's reply forwarded to devel.
> 
> I think a sensible restriction to vat-report will be: all amounts *must* be
> converted into a report-currency... which will then ensure there's only 1
> currency for grand-total, therefore 1 heading + 1 grand-total = 1 csv row.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net>
> Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 at 13:36
> Subject: Re: [GNC] UK VAT and "Making Tax Digital"
> To: Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com>
> Cc: gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>
> 
> 
> Hi Christopher,
> 
> responses inline:
> 
> On Thursday, 2 May 2019 12:36:06 BST Christopher Lam wrote:
> > Are you referring to the Multicolumn report with multiple embedded
> 
> reports?
> 
> > This one would be very annoying to create CSV export from... each embedded
> > report exposes its html output only.
> 
> That was the report I was thinking of, not surprised that CSV would be hard
> to
> generate.
> 
> > The links I attached earlier (replacing transaction.scm and
> > income-gst-statement.scm) would enable CSV export, exposing the headers
> 
> and
> 
> > the grand-totals.
> 
> Correct, that is what I see.  but the totals are wrong because the report
> can't consider the asset purchases.
> 
> > Meanwhile I'm rather more interested in generating a proper solution :-)
> > 
> > For UK VAT I'd think the more complex requirements here would warrant a
> > customised solution based on the existing VAT account structure, rather
> > than to try shoehorn hacks on the existing report.
> 
> Fair enough.  I guess the GST report was written with Oz in mind and then
> generalised a bit.
> 
> > If you can create a sample datafile based on the CoA as suggested by
> > New-account wizard,
> 
> No problem, will take your template file and try to get that sorted over
> the
> weekend or early next week.
> 
> thanks,
> Maf.


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