Setting or Changing Vat Rates in PixelPoint

Setting up the Tax Rates

VAT rates are set in Pixel Back Office, in System Setup in the Administrator menu. 

Note: Access to this feature usually requires the highest security level so can only be done by users with Owner/Administrator privileges:

Click into the Taxes Tab and it will display the tabs for the various VAT rates Tax 1, Tax 2 etc. 

Within these tabs you will see what VAT rates are currently set up

To change an existing rate, simply change the tax description and rate and save the changes.

Similarly, to create a new rate simply add the description and the rate to a blank tax tab. The new rate will be live once the changes have been replicated o the tills.

Assigning a tax rate to a Report Category.

VAT rates on products are usually set and changed in the Report Category setup. 

Go to Products>Report Category Setup as shown below:

Depending on the Setup of your system you may have a few or many Report Categories. Either way in order to change VAT rates you must go to each Report Category in turn and check the box for the VAT rate relevant to that Report Category.

Click on the Search icon,  ,to display a list of all your Report Categories and click on the category you require:

In the example above I have unchecked the 9% rate and checked the 13.5% rate. When done click on the Blue Tick to Save changes.

Assigning a Custom Tax Rate to a specific Product.

It is possible to adjust an individual product within a Report Category to behave differently to the standard setup. This is true for printing and other configuration, but is also possible for VAT rates. The Product Listing by Summary Group report should be checked to ensure that there are none that have been previously adjusted manually that may be missed when the VAT rates in Report Categories are changed. This report can be found in the Listings folder in ReportViewer.

The report will give you a read-out as below, listing all products, some selling prices, and the VAT rates. The rate applied to each product is marked in the column with an ‘X’, as the example below all these products have 23% VAT applied.

Using this report, you can check the VAT rates applied to products and ensure they are correc

Using this report, you can check the VAT rates applied to products and ensure they are correct.

Products can be manually adjusted so that they behave differently to other products in their category. In Back Office>Products>Product Setup go to the relevant product. Click on the Custom tab as shown below at the top of the Window.

In the example above, the Vat 9% was unticked and the 13.5% was ticked, and click on the Blue Tick to save. 

This overrides the tax setup for the Report Category this product is linked to.