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Two markets, two different hard problems: a return that forbids typing figures in, and five VAT rates where a line can express two.
Two neighbouring markets whose hard problems are almost opposites, which is the reason this hub is worth reading as a pair rather than as one country and its annexe. In the United Kingdom the rate is dull — 20%, and there is nothing to say about it. What shapes the work is Making Tax Digital: the return is filed from software and the chain from the underlying records to the submitted figure has to be a digital link, so transcription anywhere along it breaks the requirement rather than merely being untidy. That is a question about your purchase ledger wearing the clothes of a question about filing. In Ireland the filing is the ordinary part and the rate is the problem: five rates run at once, and which one applies is a determination about what was sold, line by line. One market asks whether your records can produce a figure without anyone typing it; the other asks whether your records can even express the right percentage. These guides are unusually direct about where our own product falls short on both counts — our purchase orders carry no tax at all, our expenses carry an amount with no rate beside it, and an invoice line gets our organization's default rate or zero and nothing in between. We do not file to HMRC or to Revenue, we have no payroll engine for either country, and we have no reference customer in either. What we do have is a live tax-authority integration built for another market, which is why we can describe the shape of this work precisely without claiming to have done it here.
Teams check that the return leaves through software and consider the rule satisfied. The rule is about the whole chain, and the break is almost always an adjustment three steps earlier that somebody typed over a derived figure. Audit forward from the transaction rather than backward from the submission.
In a multi-rate market the dangerous failure is not an error, it is arithmetic. A line computed at the standard rate that should have been reduced reconciles perfectly, because subtotal, tax and total all came from the same wrong percentage. Ask which record the rate is a property of — the organization, the item, or the line — and ask what the system does with a rate value it does not recognise.
Usually the one holding the purchase ledger, because a return is mostly a question about input tax. Settling it first turns a long integration argument into a short conversation about which exports must exist, and stops you paying twice for overlapping VAT features.
Tax is two of these ten. AWRA OpsHub runs inventory, procurement, assets, sales, point of sale, HR and payroll, finance, projects, helpdesk and reporting as one system, and all ten work in every market — the presets below only decide what a rate field is pre-filled with. 2 of the ten have a guide written for Britain & Ireland; the rest point at the method guides, which hold wherever you run them.
No Britain & Ireland guide yet — read the method.
No Britain & Ireland guide yet — read the method.
No Britain & Ireland guide yet — read the method.
No Britain & Ireland guide yet — read the method.
No Britain & Ireland guide yet — read the method.
No Britain & Ireland guide yet — read the method.
No Britain & Ireland guide yet — read the method.
No Britain & Ireland guide yet — read the method.
These are the sales-tax presets AWRA OpsHub ships with, 2 of the 91 countries covered in total. They are headline national rates and a starting point for configuration — reduced, zero-rated and exempt categories still need setting up against your own chart of accounts, and rates change with each finance act.
| Market | Currency | Tax | Standard rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | GBP British Pound | VAT | 20% |
| Ireland | EUR Euro | VAT | 23% |
Grouped into 3 topics, newest first within each.
Six facts are needed to decide whether tax on a purchase is recoverable. An amount is one of them, and it is the least discriminating. Includes a correction to two of our own market pages.
Ireland runs five VAT rates at once. Most systems offer one default and a zero override, which covers the two commonest cases and fails silently between them — including, in ours, by charging the standard rate when you ask for a reduced one.
A table with one row per country claims each country has one rate. True for most. For the rest it is a category error — and ours does not merely inform, it writes the value into an organization's settings and never revisits it.
Written by a vendor that does not file your return, has no UK payroll engine and no UK reference customer. Which is a strange sales position and a useful vantage point — there is nothing left to protect except the argument.
Four exclusions at the top rather than the bottom: no Revenue integration, no Irish payroll, no per-line VAT rate, no Irish reference customer. Then the questions worth asking everybody else.
Each of these sets out what is built today and what is still on the roadmap for that market.
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