2023-12 | 1 December 2023
Legislative Updates
Czechia:
- Form versions were updated for efiling of VAT, ESL and Control Statement.
- Introduction of tax codes under a consolidate reduced 12% rate. The changes apply to reporting periods starting from January 2024. The current reduced rates at 10% and 15% will remain available in ONESOURCE Indirect Tax Compliance and can be used for reporting. The return summary has been updated to reflect the new tax codes in the calculations.
Papua New Guinea:
Minor updates in the .PDF form and return summary sheet to reflect the caption changes.Turkey:
Section 341 has been added to the exempt transactions (transactions (section 5, block I: Transactions subject to full exemption). It is subject to manual entry in Return Summary Analysis sheet.Spain:
Updated mappings for tax code Intra-community acquisition of common goods – zero rated (AP_INTRAACQGDS_Z) to reflect the extension of special measures that require reporting of such transactions in boxes 10 and 14.Estonia:
New tax codes were introduced to support the increased standard VAT rate of from 20% to 22%. The return summary as well as .PDF form under V sheets have been updated to incorporate the new rate. The new rate only applies to datasets created with start dates from 1st of January 2024.Content Enhancements
Ireland:
- Change in mapping for AR tax code for Triangulation as party B (AR_TRIGDSB_Z). As per the guidance, the Irish trader should not include the value of the goods in boxes E1/E2 of the VAT3. The tax code will no longer be included in the periodic VAT return. It will be still reported in the annual RTD and ESL listing.
- Added aYes/Nocheckbox to the Company information sheet,56b certificate added to calculation.
Turkey:
Several changes were introduced to satisfy e-filing requirements.- New listings sheets have been added to automate the partial and full withholding sections of VAT2, as well as the partner listing sections 1015B. The VE sheets are available in the Main return menu. They are required for e-filing. The transactions are aggregated based on tax code mappings. Additional field mappings must be included in the configuration to populate the required information in columns Code,Type of Service, andProportion of withholding.
- New tax codes were added on the AP and AR side to let users map the output leg of the RC transaction to a different period than the input side. This facilitates reporting of transactions subject to withholding tax.
Germany:
Automation of boxes 10 and 110 marking the return as corrective are now set to be automatically checked for datasets created with return purpose as corrective. The box remains subject to manual entry in case of standard returns that are not created as corrective.Austria:
Fixed an inconsistency in the formula for box 7.2 in the .PDF form.E-FILING Updates
We are continuously expanding the e-filing coverage. The following returns and listings reports can now be exported in filing formats required for submission on the tax authority portals.
- Turkey VAT return (VAT1 & VAT2):.XML format for upload to the tax administration portal
- Spain group VAT return form 322:.TXT format
- Estonia ESL:.XML format
- Slovenia Intrastat:.XML format
- Netherlands VAT and ESL:2023 Taxonomies were incorporated into software.
- Germany Periodic and Annual VAT Return direct e-filing:2024 E-Filing schemas were updated to comply with the latest instructions.
- Australia:GST return taxonomies were updated
API Automation Updates
Support .CSV imports with GZIP compression:
The import API now supports .CSV files with GZIP compression. The compressed file should have ‘.gz’ extension, and a content-encoding: application/gzip
request header should be added. More information is available on the Developer Portal.Business validations applied to Delete Dataset API:
An update to apply business validations to restrict the deletion of datasets in the following scenarios has been applied:- When the user does not have access to an entity included within the dataset.
- When the return status (or) entity permission is Read Only for any of the returns/entities included in the dataset.
- When any of the returns within the dataset has an e-file status of Successfully E-filed.
Error messages similar to those already available in the system have been provided in the API when users try to delete datasets in any of the above-mentioned scenarios.
Clients token generation:
Token generation failure when client name has special characters has been resolved.Tax code mapping API – enhanced error messaging:
An error message has been added to inform users when they attempt to map source tax codes to a target tax code that does not exist. When attempting to map multiple tax codes, the users will receive the list of target tax codes which do not exist.Workbook API – populating and extracting values from return:
We made updates to the Company Information sheet, to facilitate import and reporting of cell values from this sheet via the Workbook API. The changes are made to all jurisdictions covered in ONESOURCE Indirect Tax Compliance.General Updates
Returns
- Enhanced SPAIN Group Calculation Upload:We fixed a problem that was causing trouble when you tried to upload data for the SPAIN Template's Group Calculation. Your data is now uploaded to appropriate sheets without any issues.
- Bulk Print Notifications:We've corrected the problem where notifications weren't showing up correctly during bulk print jobs. Now you get updates at every stage of your printing job.
- Navigation within a workbook:Resolved the issue navigating to errors across workbook sheets using right and left arrows in the return, as well as viewing cell formulas while navigating through hyperlinks in the return.
- Support text values in Description column in return:We resolved an issue where users adding tax codes (like “S9”) in theDescriptioncolumn in the return when users were making adjustments, so that these values are no longer converted to currency rather than being treated as text.
- Readable export file enhancement:The readable export file that can be accessed by the user after filing the return has been enhanced (for UK) to have legible and practical labels to replace the .XML tags for them to be further readable. This change will be rolled out in a phased approach for the other jurisdictions as well in the future.
Reports
- Two new reports were added to the repository of reports.
- Audit Entity Hierarchy:
- The report was created to track the changes in the entity hierarchy structure.
- The report can be accessed both through UI and API calls.
- Users with the role of client administrator or higher role can access the report.
- Returns Data- Tax codes Information:
- The report was created to extract tax codes from the T2 sheet in the return.
- The data is always extracted from the latest version of the template.
- The report can be accessed both through UI and API calls.
- Additional fields were added to the Audit ACC Tax code rules and Audit ACC Return Box Mappings report to increase the visibility of the modified changes. These reports can be accessed both using the user interface and an API.
- Start dateandEnd datewere added to the Audit Return Status report to increase visibility of the return status details.
Other Updates
Enhanced Notification Service:
The next generation version of the existing notification banners present in the top right of the application window has been enabled for all customers. This new notification service is a like-for-like replacement. Users can expect to see some minor changes. However the primary benefit of this change is to provide a more stable framework to deliver notifications to customers through the user interface.Entity manager ID is added to the Get-Entities API call and Audit entity map report so that the user can identify any mappings associated with the unique identifier across the application.
Resolved SII Rounding error:
In SII invoices received, the intermittent error "CuotaDeducible" being incorrectly rounded to an integer has been resolved.E-Filing Manager tile renamed:
The E-filing Manager tab in product permissions that gives access controls to the user has been renamed to E-Filing Manager (Indirect Tax)
for clarity.Re-alignment of column display order:
- Users can now customize the order of columns in each import category based on their preferences.
- The re-arrangement is permanent and will remain until you decide to change it back.
note
This feature is not backward-compatible. The column order of transactions imported before the implementation of this feature will not be affected.
Upgraded Content Templates
This release contains the following new template versions:
- VAT3CL14_2_45_TPL.XML
- VAT3CLGRP14_2_28_TPL.XML
- VAT3CO15_3_36_TPL.XML
- VAT3COGRP15_3_30_TPL.XML
- VAT3CZ16_8_335_TPL.XML
- VAT3CZGRP16_8_187_TPL.XML
- VAT3DE15_12_238_TPL.XML
- VAT3DEGRP15_12_181_TPL.XML
- VAT3DE15_12_237_TPL.XML
- VAT3DEGRP15_12_180_TPL.XML
- VAT3DEANN15_12_146_TPL.XML
- VAT3DEGRPANN15_12_130_TPL.XML
- VAT3EE15_2_133_TPL.XML
- VAT3EEGRP15_2_83_TPL.XML
- VAT3ES16_11_400_TPL.XML
- VAT3ESGRP16_11_245_TPL.XML
- VAT3ESBI2301_1_34_TPL.XML
- VAT3ESBIGRP2301_1_24_TPL.XML
- VAT3ESCN2109_2_98_TPL.XML
- VAT3ESCNGRP20_1_32_TPL.XML
- VAT3ESSS2301_1_30_TPL.XML
- VAT3ESSSGRP2301_1_25_TPL.XML
- VAT3ESVI2301_1_44_TPL.XML
- VAT3ESVIGRP2301_1_33_TPL.XML
- VAT3HR14_6_146_TPL.XML
- VAT3HRGRP14_6_86_TPL.XML
- VAT3HU15_12_331_TPL.XML
- VAT3HUGRP15_12_249_TPL.XML
- VAT3IE14_9_218_TPL.XML
- VAT3IEGRP14_9_128_TPL.XML
- VAT3IEANN14_9_97_TPL.XML
- VAT3IEANNGRP14_9_53_TPL.XML
- VAT3IT16_8_186_TPL.XML
- VAT3ITGRP16_8_120_TPL.XML
- VAT3MX13_3_66_TPL.XML
- VAT3MXGRP13_3_35_TPL.XML
- VAT3MY2110_1_48_TPL.XML
- VAT3MYGRP2110_1_38_TPL.XML
- VAT3NG2208_1_25_TPL.XML
- VAT3NGGRP2208_1_23_TPL.XML
- VAT3RO16_7_368_TPL.XML
- VAT3ROGRP16_7_222_TPL.XML
- VAT3SI16_4_121_TPL.XML
- VAT3SIGRP16_4_99_TPL.XML
- VAT3TH15_5_112_TPL.XML
- VAT3THGRP15_5_86_TPL.XML
- VAT3TR11_11_201_TPL.XML
- VAT3TRGRP11_11_139_TPL.XML
- VAT3PG2401_1_17_TPL.XML
- VAT3PGGRP2401_1_12_TPL.XML
- VAT3AT16_10_181_TPL.XML
- VAT3ATGRP16_10_110_TPL.XML