Information sent to HMRC when submitting a Making Tax Digital VAT Return

An overview of the information sent to HM Revenue & Customs when you submit your VAT Return under Making Tax Digital.

When submitting your VAT Return under Making Tax Digital (MTD) your Sage software sends the following VAT Return data to HMRC:

VAT Return data
Value	Description
Company name	Company name
VAT registration number	VAT registration number
VAT Return values	VAT Return box 1 to 9 values

 

Under MTD for VAT regulations, HMRC also require certain additional information which they store and use for data protection and fraud prevention purposes. To comply with these regulations, when submitting your MTD VAT Return your Sage software also makes the following information available to HMRC:

Header data
Value	Description
Signatory	The Sage software ID, for example, sage-50-uk or sage-200-uk
ApiUserId*	An ID for the user submitting, for example, Windows user name
BusinessId*	An ID for the business, for example serial number or account number
CompanyId*	A unique company ID from your Sage data
Application	Name of the application
ApplicationVersion	Application version number
UserIP	IP address of the computer
ClientDeviceId	MAC address of the computer
ClientTimezone	Time zone name, GMT Standard Time
ClientLocalIPs	IP address of the computer
ClientLocalIPsTimestamp	Timestamp to show when ClientLocalIPs is collected
ClientPublicIPTimestamp	Timestamp to show when ClientPublicIPs is collected
ClientScalingFactor	The scaling factor of the computer monitor.
ClientScreenResolution	Computer screen resolution
ClientWindowSize	Size of the MTD wizard form
ClientColourDepth	Colour depth of the computer monitor
ClientUserAgent	Computer operating system
ClientPublicPort	Port used to connect to the service, 443
X-Client-MAC-Addresses	MAC addresses of the computer
X-Vendor-License-IDs	Licence information for the software initiating the API request
VendorProductName	Name of the software product.

 

* The exact information sent for these headers depends on which Sage software you use.