VAT charities reverse charging

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We are a charity and are VAT registered. This means we have to make a partial exemption calculation.  If we buy a software subscription from say the USA, we need to reverse charge this, however we cannot reclaim any of the VAT back if the subscription is attributable to a purely charitable activity. This means on our VAT return we need to include a 20% notional VAT charge in VAT Box 1, with the net amount of the purchase in VAT Box 7. I can't seem to configure any T codes to show produce this result. If I tick the reverse charge box when configuring a T code, then the full amount of the notional VAT always appears both in Box 1 and Box 4, as if it was fully recoverable.  However, as the service being purchased is attributable to a purely charitable purpose, VAT cannot be recovered. 

Has anyone from the charity world managed to configure Sage to produce the right outcome ?     

Thanks 

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  • 0 in reply to Andy Rickeard

    Hi Andy. All good stuff in the Sage articles, but they don't address reverse charging in a partially exempt environment.and the need to get things right in Sage for Making Tax Digital VAT return submission.  Currently I need to do adjustment entries in Sage to get the return correct, but with 99 Tax codes available for use it would be great to have one that was actually configurable to obtain the desired result on the return without resorting to using the Adjustment function on the final return. 

    Roger  

  • 0 in reply to Roger Horton
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    Hi Roger,

    It’s not currently possible to have such a tax code, but I agree that it would be beneficial. You can log this as a suggestion to improve our Sage 50cloud Accounts software on our Ideas Board.

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