opened 05:44PM - 19 Nov 18 UTC
closed 06:57AM - 25 Aug 21 UTC
localization
In the UK taxes are moving towards being submitted electronically via an API und…er the _Making Tax Digital_ plan. Initially this is just for VAT-registered businesses to submit their VAT returns and needs to be in place by 1st April 2019.
They provide a [list of existing software](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/software-for-sending-income-tax-updates) that can do this. I didn't look at all of them on the list, but I'm not aware that any of them are open source.
The documentation looks pretty good from what I've seen:
- [overview](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/making-tax-digital/overview-of-making-tax-digital)
- [developer tutorials](https://developer.service.hmrc.gov.uk/api-documentation/docs/tutorials)
- [a somewhat verbose step-by-step walk through](https://developer.service.hmrc.gov.uk/api-documentation/assets/content/documentation/f66c79c2c4fc2f0cf27c158b2411a1b2-MTD-VAT%20End-to-End%20(E2E)%20Customer%20Journeys.pdf) (pdf)
- [developer API docs](https://developer.service.hmrc.gov.uk/api-documentation/docs/api/service/vat-api/1.0)
What would be involved in getting this supported by erpnext? Is this something that can be implemented as a seperate app/add-on, or would it need to go into the core?
I am a python developer myself and can likely work on this if we choose to use erpnext (which is dependent on being able to implement this).