Title: Wrong VAT Type?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Wrong VAT Type?

 *  [Martin Stehle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hinjiriyo/)
 * (@hinjiriyo)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-vat-type/)
 * In the transactions table the “VAT Type” is always set to “Reduced”. But the 
   VAT rates are the not-reduced rates. So the column’s value should be “Standard”.
   Right?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/vat-moss/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/vat-moss/)

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 *  [garryb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/garryburden/)
 * (@garryburden)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-vat-type/#post-9247388)
 * Hi Martin
 * Did you ever resolve this?
    I thought it should default to “Standard” rate too.
 * Thanks
    Garry
 *  Plugin Author [bseddon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bseddon/)
 * (@bseddon)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-vat-type/#post-9247456)
 * The VAT rate category shown should reflect the setting on your EDD download. 
   Among the list of meta boxes on the right hand side of the EDD download definition
   page is one titled “VAT MOSS Rate Type”. By default this is set to reduced (when
   the plugin was created back in 2014 all the digital rates were classed as ‘reduced’).
   Change it to ‘Standard’.
 *  [garryb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/garryburden/)
 * (@garryburden)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-vat-type/#post-9247485)
 * Hi bseddon
 * Thanks for that and that all make sense.
    However I was looking for way to set
   it to ‘Standard’ by default as I have nearly 300 downloads and I did not want
   to manually go through and reset this for each one. Also it would be better for
   creating new downloads as other people may be doing that and I would not want
   it overlooked.
 * If there any way to set it to ‘Standard’ by default?
 * Thanks
    Garry
 *  Plugin Author [bseddon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bseddon/)
 * (@bseddon)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-vat-type/#post-9247764)
 * There is no ‘click a button’ way to make it default to ‘standard’. You can change
   line 26 of the meta-box.php file to return the defined constant VAT_GROUP_CLASS_STANDARD
   instead of VAT_GROUP_CLASS_REDUCED.
 * You can also create a function to update your downloads to make sure the post
   meta value ‘_moss_rate_type’ exists for each download and has the value ‘standard’.
 * But I’m not sure it is worth the effort. The VAT class name is just some text
   included in the MOSS summary report generated by the plugin. You are going to
   have to transcribe the text of this report into a format suitable for the MOSS
   portal provided by your tax authority anyway. So instead of cutting and pasting
   the output ‘Reduced’ you can paste ‘Standard’.
 * A MOSS report only has one line per country so even if you sell to buyers across
   all 28 member states every quarter there will only ever be 28 instances of the
   word to change. It has taken me longer to write this response than it will take
   you to change the text for MOSS reporting quarters years into the future.

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-vat-type/#post-9247764)
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