When using the customer write-off journal and retaining the vat line (separate sales tax parameter set to yes) the vat posts to vat payable but on the vat100 and posted vat report it is recorded as a vat receivable.

Is the customer write-off journal not able to determine that the posted vat is sales vat payable? Since it originates from a customer invoice, I hoped it would be able to record this as a vat direction as a payable/output, rather than a receivable/input.

But it appears to follow the rule of if it is a general journal entry with ledger account type 'Ledger' and the journal vat amount is a debit it defaults to classifying the vat amount as a receivable.

An additional point is that manual effort is required to delete the vat line > amend the net line amount and add in the vat group and item vat group to ensure the vat is correctly recorded as vat payable in the posted vat and vat 100 reports. Is there a possibility if the separate sales tax is set to ‘yes’, the journal could be created differently, with the VAT applied directly on the net amount line (vat group and item vat group is added in the general tab; being the vat used on the original customer transaction). This would then ensure the vat is recorded in the vat100 and posted vat as vat payable.