• HMRC Downtime MTD - VAT - Saturday 9 December

    HMRC have announced scheduled maintenance, meaning the MTD - VAT service will be unavailable from 8am until 7pm on Saturday December 9 . You will not be able to submit VAT Returns from your Sage 50 Accounts software during this time. Read more >
  • Webinar - Running a VAT Return - Recording available

    In this session you'll learn how to run through the wizard to generate your VAT Return and submit it online. This session has now taken place, but a recording is available: Open recording > VAT Return Handout.pdf
  • Irish Ltd Company now selling to UK B2C, How to handle ROS and MTD

    Sage 50cloud Accounts Professional V27.2 Setup as a Republic of Ireland Limited Liability company with Irish VAT Rates. Now selling Business to UK Consumer (excluding NI) We now need to register for UK vat through our Irish Company as we do not…
  • Error code - TAX_PERIOD_NOT_ENDED

    When submitting your VAT Return for MTD, this error code can appear. Typically this happens if the relevant tax period has not yet ended, if you've selected the incorrect period to submit or if you try to submit your VAT Return too early. You can resolve…
  • HMRC planned downtime

    HMRC have advised that due to scheduled maintenance the MTD VAT online services won't be available between 4pm Friday 14 January 2022 and 9am Monday 17 January 2022. This means you won't be able to submit returns online during this time. Find out more…
  • Voluntary VAT registration and Making Tax Digital

    From April 2022, Making Tax Digital (MTD) is being extended to all VAT registered businesses, including those who are voluntarily VAT registered with a VATable turnover below the VAT threshold. If this affects you, you can read more and find out how…
  • HMRC VAT MTD Service - Issue now resolved

    HMRC reported that their VAT MTD service was unavailable on Monday 19/04/21. This situation is now resolved.
  • Sage 50 Making Tax Digital: What You Need To Know

    Making Tax Digital (MTD) has graced our presence for the best part of a year, coming into fruition for most businesses since April 2019. By now the world and his dog should be aware of MTD! However, for those of you who are still wondering what it's all…
  • Editing receipts for 1st MTD

    We are about to make our 1st MTD VAT submission and i have been transferring months worth of hand written ledgers on to sage. Edited a few bank receipts today using the steps from the transactions menu and ran a tax analysis report which seems to show…
  • Making Tax Digital - VAT Submission Issues

    To help your Making Tax Digital submission run smoothly, we've compiled a short list of articles that address the issues Sage customers have reported. https://ask.sage.co.uk/scripts/ask.cfg/php.exe/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=45137
  • Adding attachments to your VAT Return

    In Sage 50cloud Accounts v25.1 a new feature was introduced to help you with VAT audits and Making Tax Digital (MTD). If you need to make an adjustment to the figures on your VAT Return, you can now add supporting documentation to explain the adjustment…
  • Sage 50 VAT submission not working

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    Hi, is there a problem with VAT submission via Sage 50C? I joined the MDT scheme last quarter and managed to submit VAT directly from Sage on 1 Feb. However this time the Sage gets stuck while trying to communicate with HMRC. Anyone experiencing the same…
  • Blank Period Drop-Down Menu

    I am submitting a VAT return via MTD on Sage 50 Cloud Accounts. I have followed the guide: Making Tax Digital for VAT - Calculate and submit your VAT Return in Sage 50cloud Accounts When I reach the final submission, and select the drop-down menu…
  • VAT posted on journal, not appearing on VAT return

    I post expenses via a journal using tax code T1 for the VAT element, the VAT return does not pick this up. What is the correct procedure?
  • Making Tax Digital checklist

    Most businesses are now eligible to join HMRC's Making Tax Digital (MTD) open pilot. If you use Sage 50 Accounts and you haven't signed up for MTD yet, our MTD checklist can help you make the switch. View Sage 50cloud Accounts MTD checklist >
  • MAKING TAX DIGITAL SAGE EURO BASE CURRENCY

    Hello everybody, I was hoping to get some clarity on SAGE's MTD functionality. I am on subscription software so am told its MTD compliant, however I run SAGE on EUR base currency. I have asked SAGE in the past about this and was told that the current…
  • Enabling MTD

    When will we be able to enable MTD on Sage? I was hoping to submit 2018 Q4 via MTD as a practice run before it becomes mandatory, but it seems you have to join a 'closed pilot' in order to do this.
  • Using MTD where there are some EC transactions

    Hi. We have received notification from HMRC to that we can join the MTD pilot scheme. However, we have a few EC transactions (eg monthly Microsoft subscriptions) which are invoiced (in sterling) from EC (Dublin). No VAT is paid. We are running Sage 50cloud…
  • Bespoke training for Making Tax Digital

    The impact of Making Tax Digital (MTD) will vary from businesses to business. If you have Sage 50cloud Accounts already and you normally submit your VAT Returns direct from your software, then very little will change. Alternatively, if you currently submit…
  • Annual VAT returns and MTD

    I have the problem noted in article 28765, ' VAT Return Too Old: Invalid Period – You cannot submit a return over 12 months old' when trying to submit our VAT return as we use the annual accounting scheme. For the past few years this has been no real…