[GNC] UK specific: any progress on MTD (Making Tax Difficult) ?

[Maf. King]

On Saturday, 4 August 2018 06:46:25 BST Maf. King wrote:
> On Friday, 3 August 2018 17:17:46 BST Mike Evans wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 14:10:46 +0100
> > 
> > Alain D D Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
> > > This is the UK government's edict any business with a turnover of more
> > > than
> > > £85k/year will *need* to use accounting software and use that to submit
> > > tax
> > > returns - from April 2019 (& all above £10k from April 2020).
> > > 
> > > https://www.gov.uk/government/news/hmrc-publishes-more-information-on-ma
> > > ki
> > > ng-tax-digital
> > > 
> > > This was discussed here some time ago, but was inconclusive.
> > 
> > This was discussed briefly on the devel list but judging by the lack of
> > response I guess that there are very few UK users that are affected.
> > 
> > Inserting this into the GnuCash code I think is unrealistic for the
> > apparently few users and specific use-case.  One could, I suppose, use a
> > Python to extract the relevant data and interact with the HMRC API as a
> > separate application that has access to the GnuCash data book. I imagine
> > extracting the required data should be (relatively) easy, and (simply)
> > interfacing with HMRC is all that's required from there.
> > 
> > I signed up as a developer and have written some python that gets through
> > the oauth2 part. I'm now trying to interface with the "Individual Tax"
> > API.
> > Just getting various errors at the moment but that's better than
> > yesterday.
> > 
> >  I've no idea yet as to what data is required to push to the API, I can't
> > 
> > find any relevant info.
> > 
> > This should be on the devel list perhaps.
> > 
> > Mike E
> 
> It will affect me, but I'm not in a position to do much about it or work on
> a solution, and am certainly not on the -devel list.  I need to talk to my
> accountant later in the year about this.  My VAT affairs are pretty
> straightforward and I've always done my own returns.  I might have to move
> the business books away from GC if there is no alternative.
> 
> it does seem to me from reading the link provided in the OP that a GC report
> or two feeding into a spreadsheet containing the "api magic" HMRC talk
> about might be a way forward.  GC doesn't have to directly submit the
> return to HMRC, if I understood the notes properly.
> 
> Maf.

Should have said too: will help with testing a GC solution, if there is one 
under development....

Maf.