R2023.03 | 3 March 2023

Content Legislative Updates

France VAT return:
Further updates were made following the publication of the final version of the French VAT form.
Singapore VAT return:
With the extension of GST to supplies of low-value goods and business-to-consumer (B2C) imported non-digital services, effective 1 January 2023 new boxes 16 and 17 are added to the Return Summary, along with new tax codes to report these supplies:
  • Domestic supply of imported low-value-goods on behalf of third-party suppliers (AR_DOMSPLYLVGR)
  • Domestic supply of imported low-value-goods (AR_DOMSPLYLVGO).
Captions on boxes 14 and 15 were also amended to expand the scope of supplies reported in them using existing tax codes related to imported services.
Hungary VAT return, DSPL and ESPL forms updates:
Updates were made to reflect the new form ID numbers. VAT Return (2365A), DSPL (2365M) and ESPL (23A60) including the .xml e-filing output. There are no changes in the form layouts and contents. The VAT return .pdf forms (V-sheets) will be updated in the next product release.
Croatia VAT return:
The Return Summary has been revised to reflect the latest form layout: new boxes added, several boxes were removed from the return and subsequently some of the remaining boxes were renumbered. Additionally caption changes were made to reflect the currency change from Kuna (HRK) to Euro (EUR).
Following the updated form a new column was added to support reporting of 0% rated transactions related to solar panels. The field is subject to manual entry.

Content Enhancements

Indonesia disregarded tax code:
Removed mapping to Return Summary of tax code Disregarded sales previously reported as Non-Vatable Delivery. It now follows standard OIC logic and is not reflected in the return.
France group schedule:
In addition to the standard group return summary consolidating values from the child entities, the group template now includes a Statement of VAT Group under A3 sheet which corresponds to form 3310-CA3G (Summary declaration of VAT and similar taxes due by the head of the group). The sheet relies on the same tax codes as the standard Return Summary and there are no changes in the configuration required to populate the boxes.
Belgium VAT return request for refund:
The Company Information sheet of the VAT return includes boxes related to VAT refunds Request for VAT reimbursement and Request for Payment forms used to populate the e-filing output. The boxes require manual entry. We have added a carry forward setting which ensures the selection remains when a return is rolled forward to the next period to avoid the need to populate it each time.
Netherlands ESL country code validations:
During e-filing of ESL, the validations do not flag certain country codes invalid for this type of filing as they are included in the enumeration of business validations managed by the tax administration. We have introduced on screen error messages in the listings sheets that will alert the users to transactions recorded with an invalid country code for this type of filing.
Spain ESPL corrections:
The ESPL listing report has been enhanced to split the reporting between original submission related to the current period and corrective submission referring to prior periods. The original submission will exclude any transactions that have OriginalInvoiceDate populated and will automatically include these transactions in a separate sheet – ESPL Corrective section.
The prerequisite is to map in the import specification field Original Invoice Date and include the value in the source data, alternatively the field can be populated in OIC using Edit functionality. The corrective transactions require populating the OriginalNetAmount manually in the corrective sheet and will be included in the current period submission. Users can however opt out from including the corrections by unticking a checkbox in the corrective sheet and only file the current period transactions without the corrections.
Poland Intrastat:
Field
REGON
has been added to the Company Information sheet and it will be extracted into the e-filing output as well. Although it’s an optional field, we have been notified of clients facing validation issues during submission on the tax authority portal related to it being left out.
Czech Control Statement:
The statement logic has been amended to allow reporting of transactions recorded under a foreign VAT registration that have a Place of Supply in Czech Republic whilst previously such transactions were excluded from the statement. The
Place of Supply
field must be populated with CZ country code to ensure these transactions are captured in the relevant sections of the statement. The field can be either provided in the import data (this requires an update to the configuration) or populated in OIC using the Edit functionality.

Efiling Expansion

We are pleased to announce we have expanded our efiling coverage based on customer requests.
Luxembourg VAT return (periodic and annual), ESL and Table of Acquisitions:
  • Users can export these in xml format that can be used to upload on the tax authority portal. The submission will require several fields to be updated in the Company Information sheet such as NationalID Number, RCS Number and eCDF prefix and Agent Information. Additionally, the E
    -filing
    section in Company Information allows to select types of filing and generate a file with either full submission including VAT and ESL or split the submission and generate separate files.
  • The Annual return can be supplemented with the Tables of Acquisitions if the relevant sheets are populated. These are covered under Listings and are subject to manual entry.
  • A separate sheet is added to support the Appendix to the VAT return needed for e-filing of the annual return. While some boxes are automated and parts of the appendix are populated from a separate sheet for Operational expenditures, the sheet mostly requires manual entry.
  • For first eCDF account creations, the forms are available on www.ecdf.lu in the menu “eCDF access / First Access”. Existing eCDF users who want to add XML transfer possibilities to their account should log into eCDF and use the already partially prefilled form in menu “eCDF access / Access modification”. These request forms are only available after logging in using an electronic certificate. There are no PDF versions available. Please make sure you set up your eCDF account with the identifier "CONU4" before the first XML submission on the portal.

Other Efiling Updates

UK MTD Tokens
Some users may have an issue where the expiry date for ‘Grant Authority’ tokens displayed incorrectly in ONESOURCE. This has been fixed for new tokens but for existing tokens users were seeing a "refresh token invalid" error message on e-filing. This error message has now been updated to "Grant Authority has expired". In this case, grant authority again.

Other updates in this period

Tool-tips: Tool-tips are added to provide additional information, including a link to online help content which provides further information on steps to correct the error. In general, the e-filing errors are returned directly from the Tax Authorities, so this new feature will aid users in troubleshooting. For this release tool tips have been added for UK MTD, Australia BAS and Norway e-filing.
Spain SII: Enhanced error messaging to show updated error descriptions when mandatory fields are missing from reports, which specify each field and the relevant invoice ID.

General Updates

Datasets
Automatic roll forward:
  • Fixed the issue where returns were not rolling forward if the ‘S’ Manual Upload sheet had multiple rows (4+) for the same tax code.
  • Re-enabled this feature for annual returns
  • Corrected behavior when refreshing entities for manually rolled forward datasets to ensure correct group structure is applied
  • Fixed issue with tax year showing incorrectly in rolled forward datasets in Returns screen
Deleting datasets:
Fixed issue with permanently deleting datasets from the Deleted Datasets screen.
Dataset audit deletion report:
Added a new report to provide audit trail of deleted datasets and returns. The report covers the details including user who deleted the return, the date the return was deleted, etc.
Returns viewing options:
A new option was added to summarise returns from the Returns screen, called
All returns with count
. This view will allow users to view all returns with count functionality. NB: This is based on user feedback that this count functionality, which was removed in prior release to address performance concerns, was useful in certain scenarios.
Workbook
Print returns:
  • Fixed the issue whereby if a user clicked on any other area of the screen when printing in progress the screen would freeze.
  • Resolved issue with downloaded zip folder from prints screen. Users will be able bulk download the output from prints screen and see the pdf/excel files in the downloaded zip folder.
Data flowing from group to child returns:
Resolved issue with data on partial exemption schedule flowing form group to child returns.
VAT Numbers in workbook:
Resolved issue with leading zeroes being removed from VAT numbers in P schedule for newly created returns.
Workbook UI:
Various minor bug fixes to workbook UI.
Return History:
Enhancement to Return history page to include save to excel and delete sheet actions.
Transaction Drilldown from returns:
Fixed issue where drilldown failed if Net or Tax amounts had decimal points.
Paragraph symbol appearing in workbook cells:
Removed the paragraph symbol that was incorrectly appearing in workbook cells.
Imports
Improved logging for imports:
Additional logging added to provide information on upload errors
Editing transactions:
Improved import statuses for scenarios involving editing transactions for “No returns found” scenarios
Missing VAT ID:
New import warning, “Missing VAT ID “, has been added. This message can alert the user of missing values in CustomerVATNumber for AR transactions, or SupplierVATNumber for AP transactions. This warning can be disabled as required through Configuration then Import Warnings. Alternatively, contact customer support or professional services who will be able to support further.
Other
User Access issue:
Resolved intermittent issue where users would observe “Session expired or invalid token. Please login".
Exporting data:
Resolved issue where returns data reports were failing due to character limit on certain fields. This character limit has been expanded to 3500.
Filter persistence:
Resolved issue where column filters are persisting when navigating between grids
Custom reconciliation report:
Resolved issue with custom GL reconciliation when running over specific period.