VAT group

For UK Tax Reporting, you can use a VAT group to group two or more Entities to account for VAT under a single Tax Identification Number (TIN) or VAT Registration Number (VRN).

One of the companies in the VAT group acts as the representative member or Main Accounting Entity (AE) to submit the consolidated VAT Return. The Main AE can perform all of the LSP functionalities for UK Tax Reporting. See VAT Accounting Entity.

In addition, the totals and breakdown details of the VAT report for each of the entities subscribed to the Infor Localization Services within the VAT group can be generated and reviewed by the Main AE before it sends the consolidated return.

Other members of the group can view its own details of the VAT return data.

Prerequisites

You must perform these tasks to use VAT groups for UK Tax Reporting:

  • Set up a folder connection point that will hold the VAT Report files in non-BOD format such as XML, which uses old VAT100 format, or JSON files.

    See Infor Localization Services Platform Configuration and Administration Guide

  • Use this file naming convention for XMLs and JSON files:

    <Accounting Entity ID>;<VRN>;<Date From and To>;<Document ID>(<Version>)

    For example:

    ABC_123;GB-123456789;20190101-20190331;123-5678(1)

    This table shows the elements in the file name:

    Element Example
    Accounting Entity ID ABC_123
    VAT Registration Number (VRN) GB-123456789, GB123456789, or 123456789
    Date From and To 20190101-20190331
    Document ID 123-5678
    Version, if applicable 1
    Note: Use a semicolon (;) as a separator between each element except between the document ID and version.