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TUTORIAL: Add "vatin" to standard fields #524

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In most countries end customers pay a VAT (value-added tax). Companies
issuing invoices with VAT need to have a unique identification number
assigned. Local names and abbreviations of those numbers differ across
countries (UID, DIČ, CVR, CBL, NIP, NIF, etc.).

European Union seems to reference those numbers as "VAT identification
numbers". Some open projects like Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap use
"vatin" abbreviation for it. Add field of the same name to the TUTORIAL.

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bosd commented Sep 2, 2023

Thanks for this PR.
Yet, currently the name vat is in use for this purpose.
At least in the templates contributed by me and alexis-via.

We use this number as the first method of matching the parsed invoice with the partner in the accounting software.

It appears this is one of the undocumented items of this module.
Is it ok to use the name vat?

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bosd commented Sep 2, 2023

On a invoice there are generally 2 VAT numbers as required by law of some EU countries.
One is the vat number of the issuer, the other is of the receipient.

For the recipient vat number we use:

fieldname type Description
company_vat char The vat number of the company to which the invoice is addressed to. Used to check if the invoice is actually is adressed to the company which wants to process it. (Very useful in multi-company setup)

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bosd commented Oct 31, 2023

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Rafał Miłecki and others added 2 commits November 4, 2023 19:46
In most countries end customers pay a VAT (value-added tax). Companies
issuing invoices with VAT need to have a unique identification number
assigned. Local names and abbreviations of those numbers differ across
countries (UID, DIČ, CVR, CBL, NIP, NIF, etc.).

European Union seems to reference those numbers as "VAT identification
numbers". Some open projects like Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap use
"vatin" abbreviation for it. Add field of the same name to the TUTORIAL.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
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Changed the field to vat as used in majority of templates.

@bosd bosd merged commit d8fcf43 into invoice-x:master Nov 4, 2023
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