[GNC-dev] [GNC] UK specific: MTD - Making Tax Digital

[Frank H. Ellenberger]

Am 18.01.21 um 10:07 schrieb Frank H. Ellenberger:
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> Am 14.01.21 um 14:52 schrieb Christopher Lam:
>> Hello you're very welcome to submit a pull request. Any code will obviously
>> be GPL.
>>
>> Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
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>> On Thu, 14 Jan 2021, 5:26 pm chrisk at floatdene.com, <chrisk at floatdene.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is anyone interest in having a MTD bridge for GnuCash for VAT submissions?
>>> I
>>> have developed a bridge and would be happy to integrate it with GnuCash if
>>> there is still any interest.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Chris
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> Please consider, there are almost 200 territories on this planet. If we
> add a module for each of this "tax authorities", the code will become
> hard to maintain.
> 
> I would prefer the approach, which is already implemented for US and
> partial DE: a country specific report, which exports the data in a
> format, which is understood by a bridge, which then does the
> communication with the authority.
> 
> The format could be CSV, XML, JSON or whatever is modern at the time of
> implementation.
> 
> Regards
> Frank

And there is another aspect: Also users of other accounting software
like KMyMoney … could benefit from and contribute to the bridge.