VB v5.8

Release Date

05/05/2023

Other Application Requirements

VW v6.8 is required.

Warnings or Notices

VB-1272

CDS - View/Edit Item 

Improvement

Rearranging and renaming of some fields to improve the usability of this screen.

VB-1189

Duty deferment adjustment - VAT

Improvement

In this screen “VAT on Excise Duty” and “VAT on Customs Duty” are shown, it would be more useful instead to show “Value for VAT”

VB-1113

Goods in - import document / certificate numbers

Improvement

Changes for VW-5460 to bring import certificates stored in Warehousing through to the CDS submission.

VB-1361

ADR - Alcohol Duty Reform - 333 Transitional Easement

HMRC

Running for 18 months from 1 August 2023 to 31 January 2023 to support the wine industry transitional arrangements have been announced to provide an easement.  As such wine of fresh grape between 11.5% and 14.5% ABV inclusive, during the period this is in place alcohol duty will need to be calculated using an assumed strength of 12.5% ABV, regardless of the actual strength of the wine.

VB-1348

ADR - Alcohol Duty Reform 2023 Preparation

HMRC

Preparatory changes in preparation for the upcoming Alcohol Duty Review changes in August 2023 while we await final plans from HMRC.

VB-1296

CDS - country field names

Design Change

Changes to the country labels at shipment & shipment item level to make it clearer what each are for.

VB-1252

CDS - non excise products

Design Change

Non excise products require customers to manually change the commodity classification ID to ‘VATZ’ when submitting via CDS, changes now made to Bond to automate this.

The commodity code in Warehousing must have the TARIC Additional Code set correctly in order for this to work.

VB-1249

Day End - Deferment Adjustment

Design Change

A customer had a one off occurrence whereby the day end adjustments did not complete correctly but the user was unaware, it resulted in W5s being generated instead of W5Ds.  We believe this could be related to a server performance issue they had, but some safeguards have been introduced to help avoid this happening again in future.

VB-1359

BI Enquiry 301 (Import Customs Duties - Live)

Issue

5.7.1

Sometimes the acceptance ID was not visible in the enquiry.

VB-1358

Excise & VAT summary - reprint

Issue

5.7.1

Now working correctly.

VB-1344

New CDS Status Change

Internal

5.7.1

Pull Notification message response->Function code = 2 is not correctly implemented. This needs to be corrected.

This is actually DMSRCV notification.

<!--  This is an example of a DMSRCV notificaiton. Function code of 2 indicates that a received message (declaration, notification or request) is registered and the Declaration has been accepted  -->

[From /wco-declaration-schemas/annotated_XML_samples/Example_DMS_notifications/02_DMSRCV.xml]

VB-1290

CDS - rejection message misleading

Internal

5.6.7

A rejection message was showing an incorrect tag name, misleading the user to where the problem was.

VB-1228

CDS - Previous Document DUCR

Internal

5.6.4

We currently send the DUCR in the Shipment\\PreviousDocument however this is not always stored in the system and HMRC have confirmed that it's not compulsory in our scenario to submit it.  Therefore a change has been made that if the DUCR isn't present then Z/ZZZ will be sent along with the rotation number, as per [Link to UK GOV document].

VB-1350

ATWD - W1 with negative adjustment

Bug

5.7.0

Negative adjustments on a W1 were not being submitted within the message and therefore failing validation.