[GNC] UK VAT and "Making Tax Digital"

[refdoc at gmx.net]

   I am struggling to.understand at the moment the reporting language,
   which I understand is a lisp variant. But what I can see from reading
   the transaction report's source files, is that all logic is very nicely
   compartmentalized, which makes me wonder if a more general solution
   would not be to have parallel to the html render output csv output for
   all reports which rely upon it. This would then allow a much wider use
   and remove the accusation by another member here on the list that I (or
   others) want something UK specific.
   This would also improve in general interoperability on all kinds of
   levels.
   Peter
   Sent from my mobile. Please forgive shortness, typos and weird
   autocorrects.

   -------- Original Message --------
   Subject: Re: [GNC] UK VAT and "Making Tax Digital"
   From: "Maf. King"
   To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
   CC:

     On Sunday, 17 February 2019 12:23:39 GMT Maf. King wrote:
     > On Sunday, 17 February 2019 11:57:58 GMT Christopher Lam wrote:
     > > I can amend Income-GST-statement, which is tailor-made for
     periodic
     > > GST/VAT returns, to output CSV or XML. But so far there's little
     demand
     > > nor willing beta-testers.
     >
     > *Raises Hand in the Air* I'll volunteer to test. With the caveat
     that my
     > VAT is not normally very complicated.
     >
     > The GST report I ran earlier this morning spat out numbers which
     matched my
     > last quarter's return (generated from customised options to
     transaction
     > reports), which is a good start!
     >
     > Maf.
     Further to this, I've found and downloaded a bridging spreadsheet
     for
     LibreOffice (for free, without even having to register an email
     address) from
     https://filemyvatreturn.co.uk/download/ (seems to be a "trading
     name" for CHM
     software, https://www.chm-software.co.uk/companies where you do have
     to
     register to download...)
     No endorsement or recommendation to use them, I'm not even a
     satisfied user
     (yet). Seems that it will cost £7.50 for each VAT return to be
     filed. But
     gotta make a start somewhere. If anyone else knows of other options,
     please
     do chime into this thread.
     According to their help file, all you need is a spreadsheet (or
     sheets) that
     contain the 7 relevant box totals that you link into the downloaded
     sheet. It
     may be possible to tweak it to (automagically) fill from a CSV file,
     I'll need
     to look at that next month when I have some more time.
     I will note that depending on how orderly the exit from the EU ends
     up, the 7
     box totals required may change - but we're not going to know how
     that
     particular cookie is going to crumble yet...
     Christopher: what sort of timescale do you think you'll need to
     tweak the GST
     report etc to give CSV out? There is a clear workflow to export from
     GC to
     Calc and munge the totals there so it isn't especially critical,
     despite the
     first digital filings being due early August. But it seems to me
     that if a new
     workflow can be figured out in time, why tweak the old way first
     then change a
     quarter or two later?
     I'm pretty busy the rest of this month, but will do more digging
     into this in
     March.
     Maf.
     _______________________________________________
     gnucash-user mailing list
     gnucash-user at gnucash.org
     To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:
     https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
     If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see
     https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information.
     -----
     Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
     You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.