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With the Annual Accounting Scheme you complete one VAT return per year instead of each quarter.
The advantages of using the scheme are that...
- Only one VAT return is required per year and you have two months in which to complete it.
- Cash flow is helped by regular monthly payments.
- You can choose the VAT return year that you want.
It is usually necessary to make nine equal interim VAT payments by direct debit at monthly intervals during the year. The amount of the interim payments are based on an estimate of your total VAT liability based on your previous 12 months net payment of VAT. A balancing payment is made when the annual return is filed. You can also apply for quarterly payments that are 25% of the provisional VAT liability.
You do have to be careful not to build up a large unexpected balancing payment, so you need to monitor your total VAT liability over the year. The annual accounting scheme is also not good for any business with regular repayments of VAT as it then takes over a year to get your money.
To qualify to use the scheme...
- If your annual taxable turnover is not expected to exceed £1,350,000 you can join at any time after registering for VAT
- You do not belong to a VAT group, or are a registered as a division of a company.
You can continue to use the scheme until your annual taxable turnover reaches £1,600,000.
Tax Checklist
Our tax busting checklist is designed to cover all of the common (and a few obscure) legal ways of saving tax. Of course this is a checklist and before implementing any specific ideas you must discuss them with us as everyone’s individual circumstances are different.
The checklist is designed to cover most of the routine items that the small and medium size business owner should be looking out for. There are often more ideas that a pro-active accountant can come up with so please talk to us about your own personal circumstances.
The checklist should take no more than 20 minutes to complete. You can then arrange to meet with us in person to go through any areas where tax saving opportunities have possibly been identified.
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Use our FREE personal tax organiser to organise all your personal tax papers to make completion of your end of year personal tax return easy.
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