VAT

Flat rate for a limited cost business
You are classed as a ‘limited cost business’ if your goods cost less than either:  2% of your turnover £1,000 a year (if your costs are more than 2%) T...
Wed, 24 Sep, 2025 at 3:56 PM
How to set up a custom tax scheme
For businesses operating outside the UK, you would set up a Customer GST VAT scheme in order to customise your Sales Tax rates. Step 1. Navigate to Set...
Wed, 10 Dec, 2025 at 11:32 AM
How to switch from VAT cash accounting to VAT invoice accounting
Clear Books deals with switching from VAT cash accounting to VAT invoice accounting smartly. If you switch midway through a quarter you have the option of d...
Tue, 9 Dec, 2025 at 1:57 PM
How to set up a VAT scheme
Depending on your business's eligibility, you would have to set up the relevant VAT scheme in Clear Books for HMRC tax purposes (if applicable). The VAT...
Thu, 24 Jun, 2021 at 3:31 PM
How capital expenditure goods are treated on the Flat Rate Scheme
If a bill has been coded to a fixed asset account and has a value over £2000 including VAT, the system will include this on your next VAT return in box 4 an...
Thu, 30 Nov, 2023 at 2:55 PM
The VAT Margin Scheme
We do not have official support for the VAT Margin scheme, however, it is possible to use this scheme while on a standard VAT scheme in Clear Books. The exa...
Thu, 24 Jun, 2021 at 3:33 PM
How to enable MTD VAT Submissions as a Partner
This guide explains how to enable MTD VAT submissions in Clear Books. Please make sure to run through our MTD onboarding Wizard before attempting your f...
Tue, 9 Dec, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Submitting MTD VAT returns for your own Practice
As a Partner in Clear Books, to submit your own MTD VAT returns you must copy across your business tax account to your new Agent services account.  You ...
Thu, 24 Jun, 2021 at 3:34 PM
Change the HMRC contact used on VAT return bills
Bills to HMRC are created automatically after the finalisation of a VAT return. The supplier that you have set up for HMRC should be added to the HMRC entit...
Tue, 9 Dec, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Declaring VAT on payments for a VAT return
Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Advance payments on cash accounting 3. Invoice accounting 4. VAT Corrections 1. Introduction An advance pay...
Tue, 14 Dec, 2021 at 3:58 PM