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  • 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…
  • UK MTD Digital Links

    Are you using digital links? Under Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT you must keep digital records and any transfer or modification of that data must be done using digital links. Prior to 1 April 2021 HMRC took a soft landing approach to digital links…
  • MTD issue? No problem! This is what we will need from you…

    It is that time of the month again. You have a VAT submission deadline looming and you are finally ready to process your VAT return, but you have encountered a problem with your submission. You are probably thinking this is the worst-case scenario but…
  • 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.
  • 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 Issue Reported - UPDATED 18.03.21

    Reported Incident Product / Service Impacted HMRC – MTD Services Reported Impact Customers are receiving an error message stating “Sorry there was an error connecting to HMRC” when creating a new MTD Return Next Steps HMRC hope to have…
  • 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.
  • Post-Brexit description changes for VAT boxes

    HMRC have communicated wording changes to the UK VAT return, effective for submissions on or after the 8 th April 2021. These changes are to the labels, i.e. to UI only and does not impact Sage X3 submission files. The following wording, as provided…
  • VAT Submission

    I am trying to submit a VAT Return in Sage 50 Accounts for one of my customers (for the December period). However when I get to the "Submit your Period" section the drop down menu for the VAT periods is completely blank (picture below). My customer submits…
  • INFO: Useful links on HMRC service availability and issues for MTD submissions

    HMRC service availability and issues: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/making-tax-digital-for-vat-service-availability-and-issues/making-tax-digital-for-vat-service-availability-and-issues HMRC API Platform Status, you can subscribe to get…
  • INFO: V12 2020 R2 (Version 12.0.22) - VAT returns can now be generated in offline mode (BRI)

    You can now define VAT declarations in offline mode. In the VAT form function (GESVEF), select the Offline mode checkbox to create a VAT return without logging in the HMRC website. In the VAT return function (GESVFE), you can create a return using…
  • ALERT: Unable to submit VAT Return: Start and End dates are not populating

    Please note we have received a number of cases where customers have issues submitting VAT returns to HMRC. VAT return start and end dates are not being populated. The following X3 Versions/patch levels and Syracuse versions are affected. V11 P14…
  • 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 for VAT install

    Hi everyone, I am not sure if this is the right group for my question. If not, please let me know which group I should go to. Thanks. I have installed MTD for VAT application on a server with multiple users. The trouble is that the install program…
  • MTD token storage for Accountants where client submits own VAT returns

    Hi, I note per the Sage 50 Accounts Roadmap that the improvements 'delivered' page ( https://my.sage.co.uk/public/help.aspx#/roadmap/sage-50-accounts/timeline ) states that improvements have been delivered (August 2019 - V26) with reference to MTD…
  • MTD Submission Authentication Error

    While submitting from Production folder function GESVFE get the following: Error : 401 "message":"Security failed for business: dadec320-e6b4-4db4-a1a0-cdc6a6e37870 and signatory: sage-x3-uk" From UAT folder on the same network the system open the govt…
  • UK MTD Patch Requirements

    Do you want to know the minimum patches, hotfixes or technical pre-requisites that are required in making X3 "UK MTD ready"? And if it allows VAT group submission? All the answers and more can be found in our knowledgebase - sagekb.com for each version…
  • MTD to work with Google Chrome and other browsers apart from Explorer

    FormerMember
    FormerMember
    With google chrome we still have a blank screen for MTD Would be great if sage could work together with Chrome and the developers could make this work!
  • Making Tax Digital

    Hi, I have just submitted my 3rd quarter VAT return via the Making Tax Digital software. There was a refund of £750.00 for an invoice on the Credit Card statement so this transaction was input into Sage as a 'VR' transaction. This is a purchase credit…
  • MTD Submission on a test environment

    FormerMember
    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…
  • VAT Submission

    Hi, We have submitted the first VAT return under MTD and the submission says complete in Sage. However HMRC have written to us to say that the return is overdue. Called HMRC and they have a September Submission but not a June submission even though…
  • Importing journals to Sage

    FormerMember
    FormerMember
    My team has many journals linked to excel working papers which are uploaded for, amongst other things, recording sales. The values are coded correctly for P&L/BS treatment but does anyone know how journals can be posted to then impact the VAT return?…
  • MTD VAT tax entry not picking VAT registration number

    We are on Sage X3 V11 Patch 10. Patched so that client can be able to comply with MTD requirements for British legislations. We have set everything up and we are happy with the numbers however when we go to VAT form entry screen and select the company…