VAT Exceptions

Thanks for visiting the Community, @Freddy Slatter.

Let me share insights on your VAT concern in QuickBooks Online Accountant. At the moment, there are no similar VAT concerns that were posted on the QuickBooks Community page.

It's possible that these transactions containing VAT have been added, modified, or deleted in prior-filed VAT periods. Thus, these create changes to your company's VAT liability.

To verify, let's open your VAT Exception report. This will show the list of transactions that have been modified on previous filings. Here's how:

1. Go to the Reports menu.
2. Search for the VAT Exception report and click it to open. 

If you're seeing these transactions, I'd recommend contacting our QuickBooks Online Customer Care (UK). They have the specific tool to help you unfile the VAT return.

In case they aren't showing on the report, still, contact our QBO UK Customer Support. That way, they can perform an investigation and correct your data. 

Let me know how it goes or if you have any other VAT concerns. I'm here anytime you need assistance with QuickBooks.

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@Freddy Slatter wrote:

This issue is that these 2 VAT exceptions don't seem to be correctable, they were simply recoded to different nominal codes of the same type (e.g corp tax payable, to NI and PAYE Payable) with no changes to tax rates. So I'm basically unable to force these 2 transactions to disappear from the exceptions list, because from what I can tell they aren't exceptions at all. 

 

Has anyone seen this before?

 

Cheers,

Freddy

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HI @Freddy Slatter 

What VAT Code has been used on these transactions?

They should be NOVAT - to make sure they don't record on the VAT100.

If they were originally entered as Z=0% or Exempt but subsequently altered to NOVAT that's were your exception is coming from.

I think the only way to get rid of the exception is to return these transactions to the original VAT Code & accept that they are wrong.

Hope this helps.