Symptoms
Starting from 01-Jan-2016 Romania reduces the Standard VAT rate from 24% to 20% and to 19% since 01-Jan-2017. These changes are actual for EU Providers and Non-EU Providers with EU Resellers.
Hence, some adjustments for the BA default EU VAT algorithm are required.
Resolution
To perform manual adjustments under provider and each of affected reseller:
- Go to System > Settings > Taxation > Taxes.
- Select Romania VAT (VAT_RO), then click Add New Tax Rate.
- Specify 01-January-2016 in the Effective since box, and enter the corresponding value into the Rate field.
- Click Add.
To apply new tax rates to provider and all resellers (performed only under the provider account) automatically:
For Linux installations:
- Download 010_fix_ro_taxes.pl to BA application server
Stop BA:
/etc/init.d/pba stop
Run the script and wait until it completes:
~pba/tool/patcher.pl 010_fix_ro_taxes.pl
Start BA:
/etc/init.d/pba start
For Windows installations:
Download 010_fix_ro_taxes.pl to $PBA_ROOT directory on BA Application node
Stop BA:
net stop pba net stop ssm
Run the script and wait until it completes:
# cd "$PBA_ROOT" # perl\bin\perl.exe tools\patcher.pl 010_fix_ro_taxes.pl
Start BA:
net start ssm net start pba
Note: $PBA_ROOT should be replaced with the path to Business Automation installation directory, for example C:\Program Files\Parallels\PBA
.