[GNC] UK VAT and "Making Tax Digital"
refdoc at gmx.net
refdoc at gmx.net
Tue Feb 19 17:00:36 EST 2019
Never built gnucash but I am certainly comfortable trying.
Christopher, if I hang around for a while as beta tester for this
feature set, would you want me to subscribe somewhere else? Apart from
gnucash user?
Sent from my mobile. Please forgive shortness, typos and weird
autocorrects.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [GNC] UK VAT and "Making Tax Digital"
From: Christopher Lam
To: refdoc at gmx.net
CC: "Maf. King" ,GnuCash users group
To all interested in beta-testing CSV export, for now I think it's
safest to export CSV in carefully selected reports, because all reports
do tables differently.
After version 3.5 is out of the door (in a couple months) I'll provide
some customized transaction.scm and income-gst-statement.scm which can
export CSV, and could be finalised for 3.6 due mid-year. The current
iteration of these reports depend heavily upon the supporting files
which are undergoing heavy maintenance, and may not work for those
using 3.4 releases. Alternatively anyone comfortable buildling from
maint can beta test now :)
C
On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 19:42, [1]refdoc at gmx.net <[2]refdoc at gmx.net>
wrote:
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: [3]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
[4]https://filemyvatreturn.co.uk/download/ (seems to be a
"trading
name" for CHM
software, [5]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.
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