Question asked by George Douglas 10 years ago
I need to start charging VAT ( at 13.5% and 23%) on some invoices to Ireland while retaining the UK VAT scheme. I tried adding a new VAT scheme but Clear Books seemed to want to end the (old) UK VAT scheme the before the new VAT scheme started. What am I doing wrong?
Hi George
The best workaround at the moment is to use the VAT MOSS treatment when creating your invoices, the main benefit being that it will be excluded from your UK return but will record the EI VAT due in the books and you can use the VAT MOSS report to show all the transactions for the period.
The VAT MOSS treatment will refer to the customer's address to provide you with all the appropriate VAT rates for the country.
Enabling proper multi-country VAT schemes is something that has been requested by a few people but it will involve quite a bit of development time and so will not come to the top of the pile until more users (or potential users) can make use of it.
Hope that helps.
Best answerHi George,
Is this for digital services (VAT moss) to Ireland?
No, it is VAT on work carried out by a UK business in the Republic of Ireland
Hi George
The best workaround at the moment is to use the VAT MOSS treatment when creating your invoices, the main benefit being that it will be excluded from your UK return but will record the EI VAT due in the books and you can use the VAT MOSS report to show all the transactions for the period.
The VAT MOSS treatment will refer to the customer's address to provide you with all the appropriate VAT rates for the country.
Enabling proper multi-country VAT schemes is something that has been requested by a few people but it will involve quite a bit of development time and so will not come to the top of the pile until more users (or potential users) can make use of it.
Hope that helps.
Best answerThanks for the reply.
I tried that but when I try to edit the invoice and use the VAT scheme you suggested Clear Books pops up the message "You have chosen the VAT treatment "Digital Services to EU Consumer but the customer ..... Ltd appears to be a VAT registered business. This treatment is only applicable to consumers." and won't let me save the invoice with the VAT applied at the appropriate rate.
Hi George - the system most likely will not like the VAT number assigned to the contact. Head to Sales>Customers click on the customer, hit the edit contact button and then remove the VAT number from the Other information tab:
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I need to keep the Irish VAT No. on Clear Books but cutting it from Other Info and pasting into the Company No. should do instead. That then allowed me to save the invoice with VAT at 23% so I just need our accountant to confirm the invoice is okay like that.
Thanks.
Ah I see - ok cool let me know how that goes.
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