Important VAT Changes: How to update your Capital
Gold software
Following the Chancellor's recent announcement, there have
been changes made to the standard VAT rate. To do this please follow the below instructions and download
the utility:
Important Points about the
Utility
It works with data from
Capital Gold Accounts. It replaces 17.5 % VAT codes
with 15% VAT codes on Customers, Suppliers, and Products
and quotation, proforma, and sales order lines that
have not been invoiced. The document lines are also
recalculated.
It must be run for each
individual company one at a time. Make sure everyone
logs out of the product beforehand.
It must be run from the
computer where Capital Gold Accounts is installed. Copy
the VatRateCap.exe program into a folder on the computer.
Before Running the Utility
Create a new VAT code using
a rate of 15%.
Log out of the product
and make sure everyone logs out.
Take a backup of the data
files.
Running the Utility
Run the VatRateCap.exe program. The data location
box automatically displays the location of the Capital
Gold Accounts data.
Click the Get list of Companies button
to choose the companies you want to work with.
Select the existing VAT code from the Select
Original VAT Code (17.5%) list.
Select the new VAT code from the Select New
VAT Code (15%) list.
Tick the Adjust VAT Inclusive figure on Products
box if you want to change the VAT inclusive selling
price on product items.
Click the Update all Customers, Suppliers,
and Products of Original VAT Code to New VAT Code
box to replace the 17.5% VAT code in these areas with
the new 15% VAT code.
Click Update Proforma/Quotation and outstanding
Order Lines to appropriate VAT codes to replace
the 17.5% VAT code with the 15% VAT code on proformas,
quotations, and sales order lines that have not been
delivered or invoiced.
After Running the Utility
Check the audit log (VATRateCap-log.txt) that was created for each company in the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Pegasus\CapitalGold folder.
Run Capital Gold Accounts and check the changes to the Customers, Suppliers, Products, and sales order lines (if relevant).