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

[Christopher Lam]

Good luck creating a build. Branch at
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/500 or
https://github.com/christopherlam/gnucash/tree/maint-csv-export

I've amended the report options to be simpler; only 3 accounts selections
are needed:
- sales accts - default to income and A/Receivable, can also select any
other acct type (eg liability/loans???)
- purch accts - default to expense and A/Payable, can also select any other
acct type (eg capital asset)
- tax accts - default to nil, select VAT (EC&non-EC) asset/liability accts.

In addition, sales&purch accts whose description contain *ECGOODS* are
counted separately for boxes 8 and 9
And tax accts are also handled differently depending whether *ECVAT* exists
in description.

There may be a more elegant way to select them. The CSV output is sound
though.

Should the sales&purch accts be limited? eg sales can be
INCOME/AR/LIABILITY only? ditto purch = EXP/AP/ASSET only?

C

On Fri, 10 May 2019 at 11:42, Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:

> Hi Christopher,
>
> Thanks.  The sample report output looks good.
>
> Haven't tried to build GC since 1.6 ish days ( a long time ago) so I'm not
> sure how that will go.  From the list, it seems a lot more simple than it
> used
> to be.
>
> Will have a go and see what happens.
>
> thanks,
> Maf.
>
>
>
> On Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:01:35 BST you wrote:
> > See sample report output.
> > Branch as of
> https://github.com/christopherlam/gnucash/tree/maint-export-csv
> > -- note there are infrastructure changes which will require build rather
> > than copy-into-3.5
> > It will require careful selection of accounts.
> > Not sure if it is applicable to countries other than UK.
> >
> > On Wed, 8 May 2019 at 13:52, Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 14:27:03 BST you wrote:
> > > > It would seem the way forward would be a tailored report, requesting
> the
> > >
> > > 7
> > >
> > > > source accounts as above, and they will by default select accounts
> > > > according to the UK VAT template accounts. e.g. (1) preselected to
> > >
> > > accounts
> > >
> > > > with substrings "VAT" "Output" and "Sales", (2) to accounts with
> > >
> > > substrings
> > >
> > > > "VAT" "Output" "EC", etc.
> > > >
> > > > Unfortunately the above strategy will not be easily generalisable to
> > >
> > > other
> > >
> > > > countries, let alone other EC VAT reports.
> > > >
> > > > C
> > >
> > > A thought - there's no reason to hard code the default accounts, if it
> > > makes
> > > the report more useful to others.
> > >
> > > It isn't hard (from a user perspective) to do a 1-time set up of
> accounts,
> > > then save as a customised set of options for next time around.
> > >
> > > Of course, I don't know if that makes it harder for you as author -
> more
> > > dialogs & options, I suppose?
> > >
> > > Maf.
>
>
> --
> Maf. King
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