The devel mailing list... On Wed., 20 Feb. 2019, 06:00 ref...@gmx.net <ref...@gmx.net wrote:
> 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: ref...@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, ref...@gmx.net <ref...@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: 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@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. >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@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. >> > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@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. 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