UK Vat change from 17.5 to 15% - How will this affect your code?

Question

The UK VAT system is changing from 17.5% to 15%. What strategies have you used in your code to store the VAT, and how will the change affect your applications. Do you store

Answer 1

We have our VAT rates stored in a database table so it's not too big a deal for us although I do have to hold my hand up and say that due to the nature of some of the modifications we made to the code VAT was hard-coded in a couple places (my bad!) which I've managed to re-fudge in another more exciting manner!