Hi I have a VAT payment for a quarterly VAT return for a period before I was using quickbooks to allocate. How do I do this?

Hello, lauraw27. 

If the VAT period is not tracked in QuickBooks, you can allocate the VAT payments by creating an expense in QuickBooks. You can follow the format below when creating an expense transaction:

•    Payee: HMRC.
•    Payment Account: The Bank where the payment was posted. 
•    Amount: VAT amount you’ve paid. 

Enter other necessary information, select No VAT and select Save and close. It’d be best as well if you check your accountant about this. 

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