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There is no admin interface to support changing VAT rates.

A patch or SQL script will be provided to support the increase in UK VAT from 
17.5% to 20% on 4th Jan 2011.

VAT rate is stored with each product and all prices internally are stored net 
of VAT. Auto VAT rate change will leave the consumer price unchanged so will 
need to modify the internally stored cost price of some products and will 
effect supplier purchase orders. Suppliers can later change their prices if 
necessary.

Fortunately many UK food products are zero VAT.

The 4-Jan-2011 VAT rate increase is not handled by v1.0 of the foodhub 
software. In short it can't handle VAT rate changes.

We are implementing this for Stroudco and will release a software patch early 
week of 11th Jan to address this issue.

Default action of a VAT rate change will be that the price that the producer 
sells to the hub will not change but the consumer price will. VAT changes are 
passed on to the consumer. A producer can login and change their prices from 
the producer control panel if desired.

Luckily most produce is unaffected by the VAT change as most basic foodstuff 
are zero VAT rated.

Changing the hub margin rate in the admin control panel does not change 
internal pricing. Will apply only to new products and those where pricing is 
modifed. 

Would currently require SQL scripts to modify the internally stored cost prices 
(net of VAT and margin).

Be careful to set the margin price correctly before adding products. It's not 
going to change frequently anyway since suppliers would all need to be notified 
and agree in advance.