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VAT PROBLEMS

QuickBooks and Pre-registration VAT (Tom Trainer)
Client has recently registered for VAT, and wants to claim input tax on services purchased in previous six months. Is there anyway to record this VAT in QuickBooks, other than adjusting every invoice entered in last six months? Tom Trainer

QuickBooks VAT Cash Accounting (Tessa Finch)
How can I control the accuracy of cash VAT returns, and reconcile these to the control account? Tessa Finch

VAT penalty posting on Quickbooks (Maria Liatou)
My company has to pay 2 penalties for late VAT payment. How do I allocate the payment for these penalties? Maria Liatou

Quickbooks & VAT FRS
Has anyone got any tips on how to start using the FRS on Quickbooks - perhaps the question has been asked before. Nick Farrow

QuickBooks ' VAT: Cash/Accrual
VAT control account balance at the end of the quarter does not agree with the VAT 100. We think this is because the VAT 100 is based on Cash accounting. Jamie

Create a VAT only invoice in Quick Books?
Is there an easy way to charge a vat only invoice in Quick Books? Regards, John.

VAT in Clearbookkeeping (Robert Gordon )
Posting a clients records and preparing their VAT return in ClearlyBookkeeping 2003 Pro. Robert Gordon

Any Quickbooks experts out there?
We have been cash accounting for VAT since we set up but have exceeded the turnover threshold for the last quarter. Alison Bardsley

QuickBooks
I can see the listing of purchase invoices etc and can check these. But no VAT is shown. Do I then need to check all the VAT account separately? David Roscoe

How should factored invoices be handled in Quick Books?
My client has just started factoring with Alex Lowrie... Bear in mind too that QuickBooks does NOT correctly handle part payments under VAT cash accounting. Jeremy Holmes

PAYROLL

Quickbooks online problems
Why are there problems? Are they using a different access point from say IRIS? Nicholas Myles

QuickBooks & Online Filing
We have submitted one client online but when we try a different one we see the message "Previous online filing submission response was not received from the Government server. Check for a response now?' Stuart Jones

QuickBooks Payroll - Trade Disputes
Since upgrading our QuickBooks payroll we have, in certain cases, had a message which tells us that a repayment is being withheld because the employee is in a trade dispute even though no repayment is due. Stuart Jones

Quickbooks online P35 filing error message
Have just been speaking to technical support at Intuit as I received error messages "The XML page cannot be displayed" when trying to print a P35 and when trying to file online. Andrew Lane

Quickbooks & FBI For PAYE Returns
Does anybody out there know if Intuit's Quickbooks FBI for payroll will work with versions before Pro 2005? Robert Mitchell

QuickBooks Payroll & Accounts
Rather stupidly, having already set up payroll for a client on one machine we then set up the same client on another machine for bookkeeping. Stuart Jones

Quickbooks payroll ' directors
An employee, who is also a director, has just given up his other job and I want to change his tax code from DO to 461LX. Heather Simpson

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Quickbooks problem
A client has emailed me a zipped Quickbooks file. I have tried and tried but can't get it to open - each time I get a message saying is either not a Quickbooks file or else it is damaged. Alison Cook

Quick books Accountants club
Why should I have to join their accountants club or pay full version of the software when I only have one client using their software? steven heather

Is Quickbooks support always this poor?
Was I just unfortunate on a busy Friday afternoon or is this normal? Profitfinder

Quickbooks - size of data file
Client is £1m t/o wholesaler. Currently has (I think) 5 years of history in the file which has now reached 120MB and causing problems. Adam Reeves

Quickbooks 2004 - is the cashflow element any good?
I am currently using Quickbooks 2003 and am considering upgrading to 2004 for the cashflow element of the package. Does anyone have experience of this and is it any good? Suzanne Miller

Quickbooks training
What prices are others charging for Quickbooks training? Liz

Quickbooks training
Can anyone recommend a good Quickbooks trainer? Claire Kelly

Review: QuickBooks 2002 Premier
Hot on the heels of the release of Quickbooks 2002, Intuit has added a new version with larger businesses and accountants in mind. Having reviewed the New 2002 version earlier this year, Nigel Harris took a look at Premier.