What is changing

HMRC is bringing in a new revenue calculation model on 1st August 2023

Further information is obtained here Alcohol Duty: rate changes - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

In order for the WMS to accomodate these changes a number of changes will have to be made, these are released in Commerce v2023.3

Latest Timescales

Vision Commerce v2023.3 is planned for release in Q2, expectations are that this will contain all changes necessary however a later software version may be required.

Further information will be released on this page when it becomes available.

Current Outline Plans

Data updates we can automate

We are planning to offer to automate the required changes for the rates structure to Commerce customers. This would have to work off the changes based on :

• Strength ABV field, as such we urge customers to start using this field correctly if not doing so already and to ensure that the field is set correctly for all historical records. Where this is not done, for any records without this set we may have to assume the highest permitted strength for their tax or commodity code in order to switch it over to the new rate.

• Existing Tax Rate field as we will be using the 4xx codes to convert to the new 3xx codes and using the lookup for the ABV to categorise them correctly.

Modifications to Commerce v2023.3

1. Strength will be added to the PO, which will also be submitted to the warehouse. This will be defaulted from the product record but can be overridden, the actual strength will be recorded when the stock is receipted either manually through the screen, or via the automated warehouse interface.

2. Strengths will also be visible on the stock & product searches.

3. Strengths for existing stocks and outstanding POs will be updated from the product record.

There’s currently no intention to integrate Small Producer Relief calculations into the system, as the actual duty value returned from the warehouse is used which takes this into consideration.

Advice to Vision users

You need to ensure

• You have ABV for all products which fall into the alcohol categories and that those are correct.