Well Ive never come across this one before. I have just completed an EC sales list for a client and on the Sage reports it is missing one letter from the end of the customers Irish VAT number.
All the other country VAT numbers are correct, and indeed the missing letter is actually present on the customer record, so I am at a loss how to correct it. Ive also completed several EC sales lists on the same version of sage and not encountered this problem before.
Wondering if it was still April fools day?!!
Workaround was easy enough in that I complete the EC sales list manually via VAT online, rather than submitting from my Sage, but just wondering how that one could be sorted.
Any ideas folks?
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Hi Joanne - my turn to reply to a message of yours now!!
Do you mean the Sage report as in a PDF (like the one accessed in Customer>Reports>EC Sales) or the generated return which is accessed on the VAT screen?
If it's the PDF version, I have endless problems with them cutting off information because of the columns not being wide enough...? Thank goodness for Report Designer!
I just entered a few dummy customers on a Sage of mine and tried all variations of Irish VAT numbers (with the 8 or 9 digits, letters before/after), it all showed up ok for me.
As Faye suggests, the problem is almost certainly a case of the number not fitting in the space given over to it in the report.
Looking up the format of Irish VAT numbers, they are eight characters long, most of which are digits but either the last or the second and last could be letters. In most fonts, numerical digits all have the same width - but unless you are using a fixed width font (which the report probably isn't), then the width of letters can vary.
I'd guess that if you looked at the affected VAT number, any letters it contains are wider ones. This would make the overall VAT number slightly wider when printed than one that doesn't have similarly wide letters in it.
When you submit the return online to HMRC from within Sage, it doesn't send them a print out; it sends the actual data - so (if the above is indeed the problem) submission wouldn't have been affected.
Edit: @Faye - Like the maths joke. Sadly, I get it. ;)
-- Edited by VinceH on Tuesday 5th of April 2016 11:06:33 AM
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Thanks guys - it is indeed just the PDF report. Must be lucky with the other lines on there, unlike you Faye. But yes Vince the particular problem one has an 'M' at the end, which is a wider one!
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