VAT and Making Tax Digital
VAT returns that build themselves
FinBaze builds your VAT return from everything you book. At the end of the quarter you check the figures and submit to HMRC under Making Tax Digital, from the same screen.
- VAT Jul–Sep 2026 · Ready · £3,912.00 to pay · due 7 Nov
- VAT Apr–Jun 2026 · Submitted · Paid
- VAT Jan–Mar 2026 · Submitted · Paid
- VAT Oct–Dec 2025 · Submitted · Paid
- VAT Oct–Dec 2026 · Open · due 7 Feb
Always up to date
Your return grows with every booking
Every invoice, receipt and bank line gets the right VAT rate the moment it's booked. So you can see all quarter what you'll owe or reclaim, not just when the deadline is close.
- All nine boxes filled from your sales and purchases
- VAT owed or reclaimable, visible at any moment
- Click through from a box to the bookings behind it
- Box 1 VAT due on sales £4,860.00
- Box 4 VAT reclaimed £948.00
- Box 5 Net VAT £3,912.00
- Box 6 Sales ex VAT £24,300
- Box 7 Purchases ex VAT £4,740
How you file VAT with FinBaze
FinBaze processes around 80% of bookkeeping automatically. What's left for you is checking and pressing submit.
Keep booking
Invoices, receipts and bank lines are booked, and each one counts towards your return straight away.
All quarter
Check the figures
Open the return, review the nine boxes and click through to what's behind them.
After the quarter
Submit to HMRC
FinBaze submits the return under Making Tax Digital. HMRC's confirmation comes back into your overview.
One click
Pay on time
The payment reference is ready, so HMRC can match your payment.
Before the deadline
Making Tax Digital, without the bridging spreadsheet
Everything HMRC expects from your VAT return comes from the same books you keep every day.
Obligations from HMRC
Your VAT periods and due dates come straight from HMRC, so you always know what's open.
Nine boxes from your books
Every box is calculated from your bookings, with no copying from one system to another.
Deadlines in view
Each return shows its due date: one month and seven days after the period ends.
Submitted digitally
Returns go to HMRC through the Making Tax Digital connection, straight from FinBaze.
Pay from the return
The payment reference is ready, so HMRC can match your payment.
A record of every step
Who prepared, approved and submitted each return is kept with it, ready if HMRC ever asks.
With your accountant
Your accountant files from the same books
Rather have your accountant handle VAT? Invite them. They work in your books, check the return and submit it, with no exports or attachments flying back and forth.
- Your accountant works in the same books as you
- They can submit for you from your books.
- Every step is recorded on the return
- Prepared · Emma Clarke · 2 Oct
- Approved · You · 3 Oct
- Submitted to HMRC · Emma Clarke · 3 Oct
Questions about VAT returns
Your next VAT return, without the spreadsheet
Try FinBaze free for 14 days. Connect your bank and watch this quarter's return grow with every booking.