VT software cannot keep track of stock. Im not sure if I am missing the point on a couple of levels Im assuming, given your other post today that you are specifically talking about doing this just for MTD compliance? This is not correct: businesses can choose to use spreadsheets to both maintain digital records and perform tax calculations, provided the spreadsheets combine with some form of ‘bridging’ software that will allow their VAT return data to be sent to HMRC from the spreadsheet.Can you add your first name so that it appears under the signature bar on your posts? Saves everyone looking it up each time and makes sure they spell it correctly!! (you do this via Edit profile ->signatures). Eventually you will not be able to use spreadsheets or bridging software under MTD This is not correct: the smallest businesses are currently exempt from MTD for VAT but can join voluntarily.Īround a quarter of businesses below the VAT threshold have already chosen to sign up and experience the benefits digital record keeping has to offer, in advance of MTD being extended to those below the threshold in April 2022.īusinesses that cannot go digital will not be required to do so. Small businesses should be automatically exempt MTD also provides many wider benefits to business and our MTD case studies (available on our YouTube and GOV.UK channels) feature some of the benefits businesses have experienced from making the move to digital record keeping. Most businesses will be able to claim any costs for hardware and software against their tax.
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This is not correct: there are MTD-compatible solutions available at no or low cost for most businesses, including free products (with varying conditions of use).Ĭosts will differ from business to business and are influenced by the size and complexity of the business and their degree of digital capability, as well as the type of functionality they want their software to include. The cost and admin burdens of MTD are prohibitive for most businesses MTD offers a more integrated approach to business administration and tax, reducing the time businesses spend on administration in the longer term and making it easier for them to get their tax right.Īn independent evaluation of MTD’s impact on record-keeping behaviour and scope for error among small businesses published in March 2020 found that that businesses that subscribed to MTD for VAT with fully integrated accounting and tax software reported spending less time on their tax.
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– in a YouGov poll 61% of businesses said they have previously lost receipts– and errors also occur in the manual transposition of data and manual calculations. This is not correct: keeping records on paper and submitting VAT returns to HMRC manually results in errors This is not correct: businesses above the VAT threshold were required to join MTD and submit their VAT returns using the new service for their first VAT period which began on or after 1 April 2019.
Businesses above the VAT threshold can choose not to join MTD for VAT and continue to submit returns as they always have done.
This is not correct: no business will need to provide information to HMRC more regularly than they do now, nor send any additional information.
Myths Under Making Tax Digital ( MTD) for VAT, businesses will have to provide more information than they already do Since 2019 businesses above the VAT threshold are required to keep their records digitally and submit their VAT return using compatible software.