As of 1 January 2010, European Sales List (Déclaration Européenne de Services) reporting becomes mandatory for all VAT-liable French businesses providing services within the European Community (EC). A company is required to register its activities and report them on the monthly basis. As of 2010, ESL will be used to report services delivered to customers within other EU countries.
Changes are made to the functionality of EU sales list to ensure that you are able to register and report the data according to the rules for 2010. You will be able to generate either a printed form of the traditional EU sales list or its finalized XML version.
The following changes have been implemented for the French legislation:
In the overview of EU sales list screen, two new buttons, Delete and XML, are added. These buttons are enabled when an EU sales list record is selected. You can click Delete to delete a selected record and create a new EU sales list for the same period. When you click XML, the EU sales list screen is displayed as below:At Export directory, you can define the location of the folder where the XML file will be saved after it has been generated. Only a valid folder can be defined. The defined folder location will be saved and it will always display the last used path. Once the folder location is defined, you can click Export to generate the XML file. Upon its successful creation, a message stating that the file has been created will be displayed.
When creating an EU sales list, the option to select Assigned or Processed will be removed from the Returns section as it is not possible to create a final EU sales list for assigned VAT return records. A final EU sales list can only be generated for final processed VAT returns. When Trial is selected at Type, only records with an assigned VAT return period will be displayed. Clicking Start will generate the trial report.When Final is selected at Type, only records with the final processed VAT return period will be displayed. The return period will be displayed based on the selected year and period. Clicking Start will display the crystal report layout. You then need to click Print in the crystal report layout to finalize the EU sales list.
The XML file generated will be stored in your local machine at a specified directory and not in the database. Records in the XML file are grouped per debtor and based on the same debtor VAT number. Only records with VAT codes will be reflected in the XML. A sample XML file is displayed below: