[GNC] UK VAT and "Making Tax Digital"

[Peter von Kaehne]

Hi,

We are using Gnucash very gratefully for now over a decade in our small
business. We are VAT registered.

The UK government has declared it requires from this year onwards VAT
businesses to go towards a complete digital solution with their tax
under new law called "Making Tax Digital". All tax records need to be
in a seamless electronic format from entering into books to filing with
the tax office. An API has  been offered 

https://developer.service.hmrc.gov.uk/api-documentation/docs/api/service/vat-api/1.0#_retrieve-vat-obligations_get_accordion

The main obstacle I can see for us right now is we have as far as I can
tell no way to file Tax returns from inside the programme. 

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-notice-70022-making-tax-digital-for-vat/vat-notice-70022-making-tax-digital-for-vat#para-3-2

I quote: 

> Functional compatible software is a software program, or set of
> software programs, products or applications, that must be able to:
> 
>     record and preserve digital records (see paragraph 3.3)
>     provide to HMRC information and returns from data held in those
> 	digital records by using the API platform
>     receive information from HMRC via the API platform
> 



Is there anything you have in the pipeline? We can hardly be the first
or only who will have a problem...

Many thanks!

Peter