2024.03 | 1 March 2024

Legislative Updates

Switzerland pdf form
– The pdf form has been updated to reflect the legislative changes already applied in the Return Summary. The updated pdf form includes four new boxes added for reporting tax rates introduced in 2024:
  • Box 303 with 8.1% rate, reporting from 01.01.2024
  • Box 313 with 2.6% rate, reporting from 01.01.2024
  • Box 343 with 3.8% rate, reporting from 01.01.2024
  • Box 383 - VAT on acquisitions from 01.01.2024
France pdf form
– following the publication of the final version the pdf form has been updated to reflect the legislative changes already applied in the Return Summary

Content Enhancements

  • Lithuania Intrastat:
    Corrected the data flow from Intrastat – Company Information sheet, previously field Address was incorrectly populating the values in the xml output when exported for filing.
  • Czechia Control Statement:
    Change of logic for capturing transactions in the
    VAT Control Statement
    depending on the threshold considering the total Invoice value. After the updates made, the taxable and non-taxable amounts on invoices will be considered in the 10k CZK threshold that determines the allocation of invoices in the appropriate section of the statement.
  • Czechia VAT return pdf:
    data entered in the Company Information sheet has been linked to automatically populate the values in the pdf form.
  • Czechia VAT Control Statement:
    field
    Data box identifier
    has been removed from the Control Statement sheet in the return as well as the xml output when exported for efiling.
  • France Box Number report:
    Updated the box mapping for tax code
    AP_NONEUSUPSRV
    from box A2 to A3 to align the Box Number report to the actual reporting of this tax code in the Return Summary.
  • Hungary VAT return pdf form:
    Removed mapping to
    Box 100c
    which is populating the pdf form from an incorrect cell in the Return Summary. The error is limited to the pdf form and has no influence on reporting and e-filing.
  • Slovakia VAT return:
    update formula for box 33 to meet the requirement of reporting positive values only.
  • Ireland Annual Return:
    • Change in mapping of AR tax code for Triangulation as party B zero rated 0% (
      AR_TRIGDSB_Z
      ). The tax code will no longer be included in the
      annual VAT return
      (RTD statement) to align the reporting in periodic and annual declarations.
    • Change in mapping of AP tax code Domestic Reverse charge standard rated 23% (
      AP_RCDOMPURCONSRV_SA
      ). A mapping has been added to account for reporting the net amount in box P1 to account for the sale.
    • Both changes in the mapping will apply to transactions with reporting period 2024 onwards.
  • Italy VAT return:
    Fields
    Tax Code
    (Codice Fiscale) and
    ModNo
    have been made editable in the pdf form of the periodic VAT return.
  • Adjustment Summary Report:
    The report has been enabled for jurisdictions previously not covered: Argentina, Lebanon and Venezuela.
  • Return Summary Analysis report:
    the report has been enabled for Turkey and captures forms
    1015A
    and
    1015B
    .
Changes to Returns Company Information sheet:
Company Name –
The formula to populate Company Name in the Company information sheet has been updated to allow more accurate reporting of the legal entity name in returns. The Company Name is now fed from an additional optional field in the Entity Manager titled “
Reporting Company Name
” if this field is populated. This new column was introduced to allow duplicate entries in the Entity Manager if a business is registered with the same name across multiple jurisdictions since Entity Name must be a unique value and cannot be repeated in the Entity Manager. If Reporting Company Name is not populated in the Entity Manager, the standard Entity Name will continue to be used as the default Company Name and will carry forward from prior periods in case of rolled forward datasets.
VAT Registration Number –
this field will no longer be manual entry in the returns and instead will be populated from the Entity Manager. If the field is blank users will be prompted with an error message advising to enter VAT registration number in Entity Manager. This changed logic will apply to new datasets with start dates after the 1st of January 2024 however to support the transition period the values will carry forward from prior periods.
The above changes have been introduced in the following jurisdictions and apply to datasets created with start dates form the 1st of January 2024: Czechia, Estonia, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam.
Overtime this approach will be extended to all OIC jurisdictions.
Tax Code Import Rules
Additional amount fields have been enabled, that will automatically calculate values to provide more granular information on a transactional level, capturing VAT amounts with partial recoverability such as Recoverable Input VAT and Irrecoverable VAT. The additional fields are not influencing the VAT reporting and serve as information purpose only.
Previously only full input VAT amounts imported to OIC were available in import details and the partially recoverable and irrecoverable amounts are calculated in the returns. These fields are calculated based on Tax Code Import Rules assigned to each tax code depending on the recoverability and additional settings related to the custom irrecoverable percentage. This will be particularly beneficial for tax codes set as partially recoverable to be deducted.
The new fields are:
Full Output; Full Input; Full Net; Irrecoverable Input; Irrecoverable Net; Recoverable Input; Recoverable Net
.
This has been introduced in the following jurisdictions: Czechia, Estonia, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Philippines, Slovakia, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam. Over time this approach will be extended to all OIC jurisdictions.
The import rules will not be captured in Norway due to the specific content design for this jurisdiction.
Long description in the Return Summary Analysis report:
An additional column titled
Long Description
has been added to give the box description associated with the box number when users run the ‘Return Summary Analysis’ report.
The long descriptions have been introduced in the following jurisdictions and apply to datasets created with start dates form the 1st of January 2024: Czechia, Estonia, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam.
The long description will not be captured in some jurisdictions where this information cannot be incorporated in the report. This applies to Norway and Italy.

E-FILING Updates

  • Netherlands efiling –
    the following tags automatically generated for filing purposes are updated to represent unique values per submission. This logic is incorporated to satisfy the tax administration requirements to perform additional checks on duplicate tax returns.
    • VAT / VAT Corrective:
      bd-i_MessageReferenceSupplierVAT
    • ESL:
      bd-i_MessageReferenceSupplierICP
  • Norway E-filing:
    As per latest updates by the Norway Tax Authorities, users will be able to e-file their returns using the ID Porten.

SAF-T:

  • Luxembourg SAF-T –
    the logic for capturing fields OpeningDebit, OpeningCredit, ClosingDebit, ClosingCredit in Master Files Customers and Suppliers has been updated and these fields will be optional and therefore excluded from the filing output if all the amounts are equal to zero and there is no amount to be reported.
  • Romania SAF-T -
    remove hardcoding for field TaxAuthority which previously was auto-populated with the required enumeration for this field. It will now be sourced from imported data and is an optional field.

API Updates

Introducing ONESOURCE Events:
An exciting new development that complements the comprehensive suite of APIs that have been added over the past year to the OIC product offering.
ONESOURCE Events
allows users to subscribe to notification feeds for various key events in the application, which can be used to create custom workflows or initiate processes outside of the application that are key parts of the Compliance process.
  • There are significant opportunities to automate key processes within your indirect tax team using ONESOURCE events, as the coverage of the scenarios increases over the course of 2024.
  • In the current release, TR are looking to identify any customers that may be interested in learning more and potentially being an early adopter of this capability, to provide valuable feedback that will influence the roadmap for the remainder of 2024.
  • In this release, users will be able to configure ONESOURCE Events to provide updates of changes to Import Status.
  • In future, the coverage can be expanded to provide updates on a range of activity in the application, including return status changes, efiling activity, configuration changes, and many more.
Improved Error Messaging for Entity Mapping:
Enhanced the error message displayed during the creation of a new entity map via the API, when a source or target entity is not specified. This will help clients identify and rectify missing information promptly for smoother entity mapping processes.
New Message:
"Missing required information"
Previous Message:
"Duplicate Entity Map with Same Entity Already Exists"

RETURNS:

Multi-user return editing:
Enhanced support to ensure that returns accessed by multiple users' have correct editing rights – for example, when one user closes the application after updating the return, the editing access will be transferred to other users with the return open.
Return sync indicator:
Fixed issue with the returns sync indicator showing in annual returns even though there were no discrepancies in the data flow from the periodic return to annual return. The indicator was shown when there were Manual Upload sheets in the periodic returns without current period manual adjustments leading to displaying the sync indicator. The Manual Upload sheets have been excluded from rolling up to annual returns if there are no adjustments in the current period preventing unnecessary flagging these returns as out of sync.

IMPORTS

Special characters in CSV Files:
An update to the import process to account for special characters within pipe delimited and tax files import to CSV. Now, customers have the option to enable a setting that will exclude single quote characters (") within quote qualifiers from data imported, to prevent issues parsing the data.

REPORTS:

Improved consistency in ‘Return name’ of datasets in the presence of corrective returns:
Discrepancies in ‘Return names’ of datasets observed in the transaction details report in the presence of corrective returns has been identified and fixed to ensure consistency of information throughout the platform.

OTHER UPDATES

Workbook reliability Improvements:
Architecture changes in line with performance & stability roadmap. This release will contain changes related to the implementation of
Yet Another Reverse Proxy (YARP)
which will improve the ability of key product infrastructure to handle surges in usage, reducing impact of service disruption on application users and supporting efforts to ensure high levels of application availability.
Increased ability to monitor ONESOURCE Client Manager (OCM) usage:
Through implementation of Synthetics for OCM, Thomson Reuters engineering teams can ensure maximum availability of key product services. The synthetics that have been implemented will mimic user behavior and traffic to various services in the application to allow for detailed analysis and system health tracking.
Enhanced Alert mechanisms:
Following this release, TR engineering teams will be able to utilize enhanced monitoring and alert mechanisms which will notify key escalation groups when system health is impacted, ensuring that any service disruption for customer activity such as imports, reports, or transaction edits will be addressed swiftly and the impact on any business operations will be minimized.

WATCH OUT FOR:

Annual OIC Product Survey:
This year, for the duration of March, users will be prompted to complete a survey requesting some information on your product usage and experience of using the tool. Survey responses will help with product roadmap priorities, and investment decisions.
The survey should only take a few minutes to complete - your feedback is genuinely valued and will help ensure the product and engineering teams have visibility and understanding of the key enhancements and improvements that are important to you and your team.

KNOWN ISSUES:

This section is a new addition to the release notes, to inform users of any known issues part of this release that are expected to be addressed in the upcoming releases:
  • Printing returns:
    When printing a return to PDF, the underlines used to separate sections of the data displayed in the sheets are not included. The issue is limited to the visual display in the return printed to pdf and does not lead to data loss – the cells including underlines are empty rows without any values.
  • Slovakia pdf form:
    When printing the pdf replica of the VAT form additional zeros appear in the amount boxes compared to the values in the Return Summary. The erroneous values are limited to the pdf form which is included for informational purposes only and there is no negative impact on the amounts reported in the Return Summary or during e-filing.

LIST OF UPGRADED CONTENT TEMPLATES

VAT3AE17_6_140_TPL
VAT3AEGRP17_6_99_TPL
VAT3AR13_2_27_TPL.XML
VAT3ARGRP13_2_21_TPL.XML
VAT3CH14_5_121_TPL.XML
VAT3CHGRP14_5_110_TPL.XML
VAT3CZ16_8_347_TPL
VAT3CZGRP16_8_196_TPL
VAT3EE15_2_145_TPL.XML
VAT3EEGRP15_2_94_TPL.XML
VAT3FR15_10_199_TPL
VAT3FRGRP15_10_152_TPL
VAT3HU15_12_347_TPL
VAT3HUGRP15_12_265_TPL
VAT3ID11_3_32_TPL.XML
VAT3IDGRP11_3_30_TPL.XML
VAT3IEANN14_9_100_TPL
VAT3IEANNGRP14_9_56_TPL
VAT3IT16_8_189_TPL
VAT3ITGRP16_8_124_TPL
VAT3JP17_6_152_TPL.XML
VAT3JPGRP17_6_78_TPL.XML
VAT3LB20_2_39_TPL.XML
VAT3LBGRP20_2_24_TPL.XML
VAT3NL14_10_369_TPL.XML
VAT3NLGRP14_10_241_TPL.XML
VAT3NOD2110_1_69_TPL.XML
VAT3NZ11_3_41_TPL.XML
VAT3NZGRP11_3_32_TPL.XML
VAT3PH11_4_40_TPL.XML
VAT3PL16_12_286_TPL
VAT3PLGRP16_9_160_TPL
VAT3SE15_5_95_TPL
VAT3SEGRP15_5_67_TPL
VAT3SK16_8_247_TPL
VAT3SKGRP16_8_185_TPL
VAT3TH15_5_113_TPL.XML
VAT3THGRP15_5_87_TPL.XML
VAT3TR11_11_207_TPL.XML
VAT3TRGRP11_11_145_TPL.XML
VAT3VE15_3_17_TPL.XML
VAT3VEGRP15_3_13_TPL.XML
VAT3VN11_4_31_TPL.XML
VAT3VNGRP11_4_22_TPL.XML