i have to invoice a insurer for work we do , as part of that i then send the vat portion to the business to be paid by them. This isn't always paid for immediately, but i have to send the invoice showing it as being deducted . Hopefully this will mak

Hello Juliecardoc, thanks for posting on the Community page, are you wanting the VAT to show separately on the invoice or not?  

so what you have to remember is if the account is set up for standard VAT or cash accounting if you do add the VAT to the invoice the vat will hit the return straight away on standard and only hit the return if on cash and if you only want to account for the vat you would have to do a 100% vat transaction for income box 1 or expense box 4. 

so on a transaction, for example, you could do this for box  1 and then enter the total amount for VAT 

You can always also confer with a trained and qualified accountant as we are just technical support here.