On 27 July 2017 at 16:31, Alain Williams <a...@phcomp.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:22:40AM -0500, Tommy Trussell wrote: > >> SO (in my opinion, not a UK citizen, other disclaimers applicable, etc.) >> it's not a mathematical problem, it's a political one. > > +1 > > Which comes back to the question: what it MTD really about ? > > I suspect that they want a 'closed box' accounting package where, once > entered, > numbers/invoices/... cannot be changed - which means that it is harder for > someone to fiddle the books. > > They are starting with small business and landlords - which quite ignores the > fact that most fiddling is done by expensive accountants who work for the > large > international companies (who also offer civil servants nice consultancies upon > retirement).
I don't think it is about stopping fiddling, I think it is about saving money. If everything is done digitally by us then there is less for government employees to do, so cost saving. Colin _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
