VAT and Making Tax Digital

Set up your VAT registration, understand your return, and file to HMRC under Making Tax Digital.

Kontala builds your VAT return from the invoices, bills, expenses, and bank transactions you record, and files it to HMRC under Making Tax Digital. This section covers setting up your registration, understanding the figures, submitting returns, and reading your live HMRC VAT account.

Getting set up

Set up your VAT registration

Enter your registration details and generate your periods

Connect Kontala to HMRC

Authorise Kontala to file MTD VAT returns for you

Your VAT returns

How your VAT return is calculated

From your records to the boxes on your return

VAT boxes explained

All nine boxes on your return, in plain English

VAT periods and due dates

Your generated periods, statuses, and filing deadlines

Review your VAT return

Check the boxes and drill into the figures behind them

Filing to HMRC

Submit a VAT return

File your return to HMRC under Making Tax Digital

After you file

The locked period, your filed returns, and paying HMRC

Mark a return as filed

Record a return filed outside Kontala and lock the period

Fix a rejected VAT submission

What rejection messages mean and how to fix them

The VAT Dashboard

Your HMRC VAT account, synced live into Kontala

VAT penalties and points

Late submission points and penalties, as HMRC reports them