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  • 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 >
  • ALERT: HMRC Online VAT account withdrawn from 1st November 2022

    HMRC are withdrawing the ability to submit VAT returns by keying data into their online VAT account from 1st November 2022. From 1st November all VAT returns are required to be submitted using API enabled software. Please see below for the details by…
  • 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…
  • ALERT: VAT MTD - Scheduled maintenance, Tuesday 5th October 2021

    Upcoming scheduled maintenance notice Due to scheduled maintenance the HMRC VAT MTD service will be unavailable on Tuesday 5th October 2021 from 12pm to 12.30pm. During this time you will be unable to access their online service. We will update this…
  • ALERT: HMRC Taxation Submissions

    Product / Service Impacted HMRC submissions Reported Impact HMRC have confirmed that customers may have difficulty accessing their accounts and using some HMRC services. Next Steps HMRC to resolve the issue or provide an update.…
  • Making Tax Digital - Enforcement of digital links rules

    From April 2021, HMRC are enforcing the digital links rules under Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT. We've summarised what's changing and what you need to do here >
  • ALERT: BRI legislation - HMRC changes on MTD structure - MANDATORY from July 2021

    HMRC has enforced significant structural changes for the information required in the header record for Making Tax Digital (MTD) submissions, effective July 2021. Sage will be making the changes to the submission for the latest releases of Sage X3 (V12…
  • The Finance Round-Up #3

    Finance Round Up Welcome back to the latest instalment of the Finance round up! UPDATES Firstly, although there are no functional updates this time, its worth noting that there are new versions of Syracuse for V11 and PU9. Please check this Alert…
  • HMRC / MTD issues

    We're aware of reports that HMRC are currently experiencing intermittent issues with their online service. If you have an issue when making an accounts submission, please try again later.
  • grant authority for this software to interact with HMRC request

    why do I get the message grant authority for this software to interact with HMRC when I am submitting my return? I am MTD enabled - this has happened previously but cant remember how it was resolved.
  • MTD submission

    Hi, I've been trying to submit my latest VAT return but it isn't submitting. I've previously been able to do this without issues. I've checked to see if there are any updates which may affect this, there aren't. When I click 'submit online'> next…
  • MTD Submission on a test environment

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    FormerMember
    Hello, We are setting up a new client that has a company on UK, and he required to submit his VAT returns to HMRC If we go on parameter values (ADPVAL) we have the parameter MTDURL This parameter is set by default as production, is there…
  • 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…
  • Sage Business Cloud asked me to submit my first Monthly VAT return with two months worth of transactions in one submission

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    FormerMember
    Hi All I applied for my company to be VAT registered on 2 May 2019 and subscribed to submit VAT return monthly as the Company would expect repayment on every VAT return. I only received my VAT registration number on 26 June 2019. As the deadline for…
  • Sage 50 VAT submission not working

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    FormerMember
    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…
  • HMRC Making Tax Digital for VAT service - Planned downtime from 15 to 19 March 2019

    HMRC have advised that the Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT service will be unavailable from 5pm on Friday 15 March 2019 to 8.30am on Tuesday 19 March 2019. During this time you will not be able to: sign up for Making Tax Digital submit your VAT…
  • 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 >
  • 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…
  • 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…