VAT on membership fees

[michaellenahan]

Hello, UK Civi people!

From IRC this morning:
[10:01] <michaellenahan> A newbie question: how do I add VAT to a membership fee?
[10:04] <kurund> michaellenahan: your membership fees need to include VAT, currently there is no other option ( without customization )
[10:06] <michaellenahan> really? how do organizations cope when the rate of VAT changes? how do they track how much is payable to the tax authorities?
[10:07] <michaellenahan> can you give me any pointers kurund on the customization that people do for this?
[10:07] <kurund> michaellenahan: there was some GST module, some one implemented.. you might want to check that ..
[10:08] <kurund> michaellenahan: check http://groups.drupal.org/node/182444
[10:09] <kurund> michaellenahan: i am not sure if you are looking for something similar, but worth checking
[10:18] <michaellenahan> kurund: thank you! that's a very useful thread, it's good to have a place where the progress on this is being stored.

I'm wondering what solutions others in the UK have come up with to deal with VAT on invoices and receipts. It doesn't have to be full-fledged, a "belt-and-braces" solution that works for you is useful to know about too!

I wonder is this something we can look at at the code sprint in Apeldoorn?

Michael L

[Parvez]

Hi All

Just in case anyone is looking at this thread (it comes up on the first page if you search for membership vat!)

We now have a formal specification for changes to core to include the ability to calculate Value Added Tax or Sales Tax against items. The proposal would allow for mixed tax rates on a purchase i.e. 20% on the event registration, 10% on food, 0% on child care. This approach also allows you to use state and city sales tax for USA/Canada based orgs.

Please feed back your comments to the wiki page

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=83493410

Thanks

Parvez