Ireland Help Topics

Overview

The following help topics contain information about NetSuite features that are specific to companies doing business in Ireland. The NetSuite International Edition can be configured with capabilities and reports specific to an Irish business setting and requirements.

To know more about localized editions of NetSuite, as well as setting up NetSuite accounts and subsidiaries, refer to the following help topics:

Please note that general NetSuite features are covered in other chapters and topics.

General Setup

Ireland Account Setup: Provides an overview of NetSuite features to be enabled by the user in Ireland and SuiteApps available for installation.

Setting Up Ireland-specific Preferences: Set up your NetSuite company and user preferences for Ireland, including date, currency, language, time zone, and support for Irish number, phone, and address format.

Functional Areas

Ireland users can activate and get access to different features from the following functional areas:

To learn more about SuiteApps installation, see Installing a Bundle.

To learn more about enabling NetSuite features, see Enabling Features.

Important:

If you do not have sufficient permissions to install SuiteApps or enable features, please contact your account administrator.

Accounting

Feature

Description

Prerequisites

Chart of Accounts Management

Ireland doesn’t have a statutory chart of accounts. You are able to upload your own chart of accounts.

Install Ireland Localization SuiteApp; see Prerequisites for Installing the Ireland Localization SuiteApp and Installing the Ireland Localization SuiteApp

Accounting Contexts

Provides a solution if your main Chart of Accounts is different than your local Irish Chart of Accounts. Through the Accounting Contexts subtab on the General Preferences page, you can create an Irish Accounting Context, which allows mapping between the main accounts and the Irish numbers.

Available in all OneWorld accounts.

GL Audit Numbering

Applies gapless numbering sequences to all general ledger posting transactions. This is an optional feature and is a prerequisite for the GL Impact Locking feature.

Enable the GL Audit Numbering feature; see Enabling GL Audit Numbering and Setting Preferences.

GL Impact Locking

Requires the GL Audit Numbering feature.

When you use GL Impact Locking for a company or a subsidiary, any change to a general ledger impacted field or entity field on a GL numbered impacting transaction after running a GL audit numbering sequence automatically generates copy and reversal transactions. These transactions display on the GL Impact subtab on the original general ledger impacted transaction. This feature is optional for Ireland.

Enable the GL Audit Numbering feature; see Enabling GL Audit Numbering and Setting Preferences.

Check the GL Impact Locking box on the Company Information or Subsidiary page; see GL Impact Locking.

Period End Journal Entries

This is an optional feature that allows the creation of income closing journals, balance sheet opening and closing journals as a task in the Period End Checklist. Without this feature, the Balance Sheet report will use a dynamic close.

Enable the Period End Journal Entries feature and perform additional setup tasks; see Setup for Period End Journal Entries.

Taxation Features for Accounts Without SuiteTax

The following table describes taxation features in Ireland:

Feature

Description

Prerequisites

Ireland Tax Codes

Provides a list of tax codes that are needed to calculate VAT on transaction records, and to generate the VAT reports.

Enable the accounting features that you want to use. For more details, see Enabling and Setting Up Taxation Features.

Install International Tax Reports (see Installing and Setting Up International Tax Reports)

Automatic Tax Code Provisioning

A feature of the International Tax Reports SuiteApp that automatically creates nexus and VAT/GST tax codes when you add a new subsidiary country.

VAT preferences for Ireland

For more information, see

Ireland VAT Reports

Provides information on how to generate the Irish VAT report and how NetSuite uses the tax codes to get the values for the VAT Returns.

Setting Up Tax Filing for Ireland

Using NetSuite, Irish VAT-registered companies can export an XML of the VAT 3 report online.

Sales and Purchase Reports Grouped by Tax Code

Customizable saved reports that can be used in Ireland to reconcile your VAT return.

EU Sales List for Ireland

Provides information on how to generate the EU Sales List (ESL) report. This report prints EU sales for both services and goods. The EU sales list can be exported in the following formats:

  • PDF

  • XML

EU Intrastat Report

Provides information about the Intrastat report for Arrivals and Dispatches.

The Intrastat report can be exported in the following formats:

  • PDF

  • XML

EU Notional VAT

Provides information about the reverse charges on goods and services within the European Union (EU). For more information about configuration, see Setting Up Tax Codes to Post Notional Tax Amounts and Applying the Notional Tax Posting Feature to Transactions and Subsidiaries.

Install International Tax Reports (see Installing and Setting Up International Tax Reports) and Supplementary Tax Calculation

Recording Nondeductible Input Tax

Enables to apply nondeductible or partially deductible tax on vendor bills, checks, and vendor bill credits in NetSuite. For more information, see Setting Up Nondeductible Input Tax.

EU One Stop Shop (OSS)

Automatically provisions OSS tax codes when you assign an OSS nexus to a subsidiary in NetSuite OneWorld.

Install International Tax Reports (see Installing and Setting Up International Tax Reports)

OSS Tax Code Provisioning for Regular NetSuite Accounts

Automatically provisions OSS tax codes for non-OneWorld NetSuite accounts.

Tax Audit Files

The file enables tax payers to provide their electronic records to tax auditors in support of their tax returns, and for auditors to review accounting records.

Ireland doesn't require a specific tax audit file format. One of the following can be used, if needed:

  • OECD Standard Audit File for Tax (SAF-T) XML file

  • GL Data Extract

Install International Tax Reports (see Installing and Setting Up International Tax Reports) and Tax Audit Files (see Installing the Tax Audit Files SuiteApp)

Taxation (Accounts with SuiteTax)

The following table describes taxation features in Ireland:

Feature

Description

Prerequisites

Automatic Tax Record Provisioning for VAT Countries

Your tax records are created when you select SuiteTax as your tax engine.

SuiteTax enables you to use different tax engines per nexus. To begin provisioning your tax records, assign a tax registration to the subsidiary or company in SuiteTax.

Your NetSuite account administrator must submit a SuiteTax enablement request and enable the SuiteTax feature in your NetSuite account. See Enabling the SuiteTax Feature.

Install the following SuiteApps:

Reverse Charge Posting

This feature is a part of the core SuiteTax functionality and no longer requires any additional SuiteApp.

Editing Default Tax Codes for Nexuses

When using the SuiteTax Engine, default tax codes are automatically provisioned for nexuses. After the SuiteTax Engine is installed, it is suggested that you review and edit the default tax codes for each nexus.

Setting Up Compliance Text on Reverse Charge Sales Invoices

The SuiteTax Engine enables you to configure the extra information required for invoices where the customers are liable for tax (sale subject to reverse charge mechanism). The compliance text is shown on invoices that use tax codes with tax types where Reverse Charge for Sales is enabled.

The compliance text default configured language and text is in English. Configuration for other languages is also available.

To setup compliance text, you will need to configure this feature in the nexus preferences and in the invoice templates.

VAT Returns

The following reports are available for Ireland:

  • VAT3 report

  • Annual VAT Return of Trading Details

For more information, see Ireland Localization.

Install these SuiteApps in the following order:

  1. SuiteTax Engine (see Installing the SuiteTax Engine and Enabling the SuiteTax Plug–In)

  2. SuiteTax Data Records (see Installing the SuiteTax Engine)

  3. Tax Reporting Framework (see Installing Tax Reporting Framework)

  4. EMEA Localization (see Prerequisites for Installing the EMEA Localization SuiteApp and Installing the EMEA Localization SuiteApp)

  5. Ireland Localization SuiteApp (see Prerequisites for Installing the Ireland Localization SuiteApp and Installing the Ireland Localization SuiteApp)

EU Reports

The following EU reports are available for Ireland:

  • EU Sales List

  • Intrastat Dispatches

  • Intrastat Arrivals

For more information, see Ireland Localization.

Payments

Feature

Description

Prerequisites

Ireland Payment Formats

Provides information about the Electronic Bank Payments SuiteApp and its supported formats specific to Ireland, including steps on setting up bank records for your company, partners, vendors, customers, and employees in Ireland.

Install these SuiteApps in the following order:

  1. Electronic Bank Payments (see Setting Up Electronic Bank Payments)

  2. EMEA Localization (see Prerequisites for Installing the EMEA Localization SuiteApp and Installing the EMEA Localization SuiteApp)

  3. Ireland Localization SuiteApp (see Prerequisites for Installing the Ireland Localization SuiteApp and Installing the Ireland Localization SuiteApp)

Importing Electronic Bank Payments Data

Provides information on how to transfer electronic bank payments data such as entity bank details (vendors, employees, customers) to NetSuite.

Bank Reconciliation

Feature

Description

Prerequisites

Manual Bank Reconciliation

Lets you manually mark bank transactions as reconciled. For more information, see Reconciling Bank Statements

You must have the proper permissions assigned to your role. For details, see Permissions for Banking Features.

Reconciling Bank and Credit Card Statements

When bank data has been imported to NetSuite, you can match and reconcile transactions without the need for third-party tools.

To reconcile your account statement from beginning to end:

  • Import your bank statement file. You have the following options when using online banking:

    • Download the account statement from your financial institution or credit card company, and then import the statement to your NetSuite account.

    • Use the Financial Connectivity Plug-in to automate your file uploads via sFTP or via Bank Feeds SuiteApp.

For more information, see the following topics:

Importing Data Using a Financial Institution Record — supported file formats:

  • MT940

  • OFX

  • QFX

  • BAI2

  • CAMT.053

For more information about these formats, see Bank Statement Parsers SuiteApp

Install the Bank Statements Parsers SuiteApp. For more information, see Installing the Bank Statement Parsers SuiteApp. This SuiteApp provides parser plug-ins for the supported formats.

Note:

If you develop new formats in addition to the supported ones, you must create a Financial Institution Parser Plug-in implementation. For more information, see Financial Institution Parser Plug-in Interface Overview

Importing Data Using Default Parsers — the following file formats are supported:

  • BAI2 TXT with UTF-8 encoding

  • CAMT.053.001.06 XML with UTF-8 encoding

  • CSV with UTF-8 encoding

  • OFX

  • QFX

For more information, see Supported File Formats for Default Parsers

 

Auto Bank Statement Import SuiteApp which uses the Financial Connectivity Plug-in to automatically import bank data via sFTP from your financial institution. The Auto Bank Statement Import SuiteApp is usually used together with the Bank Statement Parsers SuiteApp

Install the Auto Bank Statements Import SuiteApp. For more information, see Installing Auto Bank Statement Import SuiteApp.

Install the Bank Statement Parsers SuiteApp. For more information, see Installing the Bank Statement Parsers SuiteApp.

Note:

If you develop new formats in addition to the supported ones, you must create a Financial Institution Parser Plug-in implementation. For more information, see Financial Institution Parser Plug-in Interface Overview

Bank Feeds SuiteApp automates the transfer of your bank data from your financial institution accounts into NetSuite. The SuiteApp uses the Financial Institution Connectivity Plug-In and an authorized account information service provider to securely access online financial institution data.

For more information, see Installing the Bank Feeds SuiteApp and Supported Financial Institution Account Types.

  • Match imported Statement Transactions with NetSuite Transactions

See Matching Bank Data.

See Permissions for Banking Features for the proper permissions to use the Match Bank Data and Reconcile Account Statement pages.

If you want to use these pages for an account, check the Use Match Bank Data and Reconcile Account Statement Pages box on the Edit Account page. For more information, see Editing an Account.

  • Submit the transaction matches

See Submitting Matched or User-Cleared Transactions.

  • Reconcile the transactions

See Reconciling Transactions.

Related Topics:

Ireland Account Setup
Setting Up Ireland-specific Preferences
Ireland Tax Topics For Accounts Without SuiteTax

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