Re: VAT Rate Change

[beamends <..hidden..>]

On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 13:16 +0000, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> On 2008-12-10, beamends <..hidden..> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 12:44 +0000, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> >> On 2008-12-09, beamends <..hidden..> wrote:
> >> > Hi All,
> >> > we recently had a change in VAT (GST) in the UK. 
> >> 
> >> I have a question about this as well - I just can't work out how to do it.
> >> 
> >> I have added the new VAT account in Chart Of Accounts, set it up in Taxes, and
> >> ticked it in the Customer and Service that I want to use it with.  But when I
> >> create a Sales Invoice for said Customer and Service, the Sales Invoice total
> >> includes both 17.5 AND 15%, which clearly isn't what I want.
> >> 
> >> I could do it via AR Transaction instead of Sales Invoice by making sure that
> >> only the 15% box is ticked in the AR Transaction, but then I can't use
> >> part/service codes.
> >> 
> >> Appreciate a clue, as I'm sure I must be missing something obvious, but I just
> >> can't work out what.
> >> 
> >> Antony
> >
> > You haven't left the old *and* new rates ticked in the Service have you?
> >
> 
> I had.  But if I untick the old rate in the Service, then when I go to look at
> old invoices, they appear with the new rate.  Worryingly, if I look at an AR
> Outstanding report, the totals /there/ don't change, no matter how much I mess
> about with the tax rate checkboxes in the Services.  So the total on the
> report is different to the total when you click on the invoice.
> 
> Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?  I can envisiage a workaround of
> creating new Service codes with the 15% rate, but it's a bit of a pain.
> 
> Antony
> 

I'm afraid the VAT in LSMB appears broken in places - I'm just relying
on the accountant to sort it out at year end. If the bill's too
big.......

Cheers
Richard

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