When working with your VAT Return, you can run various reports to view your figures in different levels of detail.
Reports available
VAT Return
This report prints a copy of your VAT Return. It shows each box and what the total values are. This is ideal if you'd like to keep a paper or digital version of the VAT return outside your software.
Summary
This report shows a breakdown of each box on the VAT Return, separated by tax code and transaction type.
It’s easy to see, at a glance, what transaction types and tax codes are making up the figure in each box of the VAT Return.
For example, to check how much of box 1 is T1 sales invoices.
Detailed
This report goes one step further and shows you all individual transactions that make up each box and tax code.
For example, you might want to check if a particular transaction is in the VAT return or not.
Adjustments
This report shows the manual adjustments that you've entered onto this VAT return
Find out more about adjustments in our adjust your VAT return article.
Earlier unreconciled transactions
This report will list the transactions included in your VAT return, but are outside the date range you entered.
Use this report to identify transactions that may need a bit of extra attention.
This report works the same as the detailed report we looked at earlier, but also groups by the transaction's department.