Tuesday, December 10, 2019¶
I continued to configure the Estonian VAT declaration.
VAT classes are the classes of trade objects to be differentiated in the VAT declaration. For example in Estonia the VAT office wants to know how much money you spend for buying vehicles or real estate objects. In Belgium both vehicles and real estate objects are considered together as investments.
The demo data for ledger purchases now uses all VAT classes. Until now it used always the default VAT class.
There is no longer a VAT class “normal”. You must decide whether it is a “good” or a “service”.
The furniture fixture now defines two new products, a book and a stamp, just to have something with reduced and exempt VAT class:
yield product("29.90", 3, **dd.str2kw('name', _("Book"), vat_class="reduced"))
yield product("1.40", 3, **dd.str2kw('name', _("Stamp"), vat_class="exempt"))
The furniture fixture was duplicated in xl, cosi and pronto. And only that of cosi was actually being used. Oops, in pronto it differs slightly because it uses different ProductTypes.
VAT columns aren’t actually needed for filling the Estonian VAT declaration. This configuration logic was originally taken from TIM. I guess that they are actually useless in Belgium as well.
I fixed a pitfall in the lino.utils.cycler : it didn’t complain when I specified a string with an invalid value for a choicelist field. TIL: dict.get() returns None when you call it without giving a default value. I had to verify this:
>>> items_dict = {"a" : 1}
>>> def get_by_value(value, *args):
... return items_dict.get(value, *args)
>>> get_by_value("a")
1
>>> get_by_value("b", 2)
2
>>> print(get_by_value("b"))
None
>>> print(items_dict.get("b"))
None
Note the difference between ledger.MovementsByVoucher and
vat.MovementsByVoucher.
I start to think that I might do the xml file export en passant now that I am inside this stuff: