Following the (ongoing?) change to how the reverse charge is handled, I’m not sure how the API wants me to post a contact’s balance on an invoice.
This is the situation: I want to create an invoice in FreeAgent for an EU contact. The contact has a balance. The invoice has several items which are sales and one item which represents the contact’s balance.
I know how to post the sales invoice items. However since the reverse charge change I’m not sure how to post the balance. This is what I tried to do but doesn’t work:
{
"invoice": {
"ec_status": "Reverse Charge",
...,
"invoice_items": [
{
"price": -12.34,
"quantity": 1,
"description": "Applied balance",
"sales_tax_status": "EXEMPT"
},
...
]
}
}
The validation error says that the sales_tax_rate must be 0% for reverse charge invoices.
However to my mind a balance is not something that’s in or out of scope of VAT; it’s just a balance. That’s why I marked it as exempt.
Please could you tell me how I should adjust this invoice item?
Many thanks,
Andrew Stewart