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VAT ONLINE
AT PRESENT AGENTS WHO ARE NOT VAT REGISTERED THEMSELVES CAN NOT GAIN AUTHORISATION TO FILE ONLINE. DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THE INLAND REVENUE ARE ADDRESSING THIS PROBLEM AS THERE MUST BE THOUSANDS OF AGENTS THAT OPERATE A SMALL BUSINESS AND ARE NOT VAT REGISTERED.
Not able to do this yet?
As far as I was aware this option had not been enabled as yet? See Working Together 36.
We can register our clients for VAT but do not have the option to submit Returns on their behalf.
We are waiting for the switch to be thrown!
Interested if someone could please point me to the new penalty l
...that says its a requirement for the client to approve the return before its filed by an agent.
Currently we use the fact that they have authorised us as agents in the first place to file the return without their specific say so. We email them the figures and say if they have any questions please come back to us within two days, and after that the return will be filed if we don't hear from them. The returns are pretty simple so the probablilty they are incorrect is about 0.001%. Would this still be an acceptable method under the new regime?
VATC8 Letters
Just now we recieved 7 separately posted virtually identical letters addressed to us from HMRC headed "authorising your agent to deal with us..." .
They are all dated 26th November and contain OUR VAT number as the agents reference and additionally quoting our VAT number.
When I say identical there is a slightly different 17 number reference number in the top left corner of each letter. (eg: 010001:00000004:1)
We are given an Authentication code with an expiry date of 26th December.(Boxing Day I think!)
There is no refernce to any client.
Can any one shed any light on these letters please? And what we should do with them?
Cant wait for what tomorrows post might bring
Andrew Porteous