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@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.
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