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Your VAT return figures

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Every quarter, the VAT return used to mean a weekend of adding up invoices and receipts. In this lesson, Nadia's return is built from the books she already has.

What you'll learn

  • Find your unfiled VAT period
  • Build the VAT 201 from your books
  • Take the FTA form to EmaraTax

Step by step

  1. Your unfiled period — Her to-do list already knows her first VAT period has ended and isn't filed yet. One tap takes her to the VAT tool.
  2. File the quarter — The quarter is July to September. She files it.
  3. The VAT 201 boxes — The return comes from her books: her sales and the VAT on them, her purchases and the VAT she can reclaim, and what she owes for the quarter.
  4. On to EmaraTax — She downloads the form in the FTA's own format and uploads it on EmaraTax herself, with the breakdown kept for her records.

No weekend of adding up: the figures were in her books all along. Next, how new clients find her.