[GNC] Fwd: Accounts for UK Vat need updating since the UK left the European Union

[Frank H. Ellenberger]

Am 23.11.22 um 09:44 schrieb Dr. David Kirkby:
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 at 04:16, David T. via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
>> Presumably,  Dr. Kirby will still have transactions in those accounts, in
>> which case hiding the accounts and making them placeholders would be the
>> proper approach.
> 
> 
> Personally I don’t use them, as I am not VAT registered, but I might well
> become, so that was my reason for looking at the account structure for UK
> VAT.  But other users might well have transactions in those accounts. It
> would obviously not be desirable to mess things up for others.

With the templates you can
a) create new books,
b) add accounts to existing books,
but never remove accounts.

>> As for the template, Frank's advice is appropriate. I believe his warning
>> about being sure is sarcastic; regardless, the template should be changed
>> to reflect the world as it is, so changing is in order.
> 
> 
> Yes, I took the comments the same way as you. Unfortunately I would not
> feel comfortable making a pull request with git. I have only git to
> download software - never for uploading patches or similar.

Did you see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Simple_Pull_Request?

>> As I have never used the templates, I'm not sure what those changes would
>> look like, but the changes could be as simple as removing the lines in
>> question (139-149, for example?)  from the source file.
>>
>> ⁣David T. ​
> 
> 
> Dave

Frank