Searching your Help Site under Sage 200, it gives us instructions on how to enter a Journal with VAT. However, there is no function on Sage 200 to enable us to actually do this, as the VAT is permanently locked to the T0 tax code (at least it is on my account).

We cannot claim back Import VAT until it shows on the C79 return , so all Import VAT is required to be entered as a T9 code until such time as we can claim it.

In Sage 50, once the C79 was received and checked against invoices, we used to raise a journal to credit the T9 entry, and then enter the amount again as a debit T1 entry , in order to claim the VAT amount back. Our only option currently in Sage 200 is to do a manual adjustment on the VAT return - not helpful if you need to be able to illustrate accurate VAT Liability on a monthly basis, and it also runs the risk of users screwing up the VAT return if they have not had to manually adjust VAT returns before; trust me I WILL be one of those who'll screw the VAT return up...

Please make our job less complicated and FREE the VAT!!