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Value Added Tax (VAT) will increase from 14% to 15% on the 1st of April 2018. To do this change in the ROBOTILL Point of Sale System is quick and easy. This article will explain how to do the change. In ROBOTILL you can schedule price changes so that a price change only takes effect on a specific date. You cannot however schedule a TAX change. That means you will need to do the change before the start of business on the 1st of April (or after close of business the previous day). To do the change only takes a couple of seconds. Changing VAT in ROBOTILL In ROBOTILL Manager, go to Setup > System Configuration > General Configuration > Sales Tax. Click on 'Manage Tax Items' Select the 14% VAT Item and click on 'Edit'. Change the percentage to 15 and click on Update. That is it! All your products will now automatically have the new price calculated from the price excluding tax. The change will also not affect your history of sa...

ROBOTILL (the International Point of Sale System ) by default will use VAT and display prices including tax as this is how most countries work. Some countries however (like the USA) have other requirements. In this article I will show how easy it is in ROBOTILL to change your tax set-up to work for a country like the USA. Basically what we want to achieve is for our receipts (till slips) to look something like the image above. Each item on the slip should display the amount excluding sales tax instead of the amount including sales tax (the default in ROBOTILL). As each item does not show the amount with tax, we want to indicate which items will be taxed. In the sample above we added a 'F' for tax free and a 'T' for taxable after each item (the default print setup does not have this column). We then also want to display the total without tax and then the total amount of tax (instead of giving a tax break down after the total including tax is displayed like ...