Who this is for
Owner or bookkeeper of a VAT-registered UK business whose accountant files and who wants odd items found each month rather than on filing day.
The first set of papers worked, and the next period is already filling up with transactions.
The result
Each month you receive the running VAT papers for the open period, tied to the ledger's VAT report, with new odd items listed first. When a return period closes you receive the full-period papers for your accountant. Your accountant files; we never do.
What is included
- One ledger on the standard scheme and up to 2,000 transactions a month
- Running totals by tax code and a trace to the rows
- New odd items since last month, as questions
- Full-period papers when the period closes
- The frozen test re-run monthly, plus 20 fresh accountant-held cases whenever the layout or tax-code mapping changes; a scheme outside the stated scope stops the job
You receive
- Monthly running papers
- New odd-items list
- Full-period papers at period end
- Monthly regression report and fresh-case report after layout or mapping changes
What is not included
- Filing, submitting or approving a VAT return, or logging in to HMRC
- Choosing or changing a tax code
- Tax, accounting or legal advice
- Any response-time guarantee or out-of-hours cover
What we need from you first
- Your ledger and VAT scheme and your return period
- Who receives the papers. No ledger data in the first enquiry
Never send passwords, keys, customer records or confidential code in the first enquiry. Secure handover is agreed after scoping.
How we check it is done
- Every total equals the script sum of its rows to the penny; one internal arithmetic difference fails the month. Any difference from the ledger VAT report is listed with the rows and explanation, and an unexplained difference fails the month.
- Each month the frozen planted-oddity test still raises at least 32 of the 35 planted oddities.
- Each month the frozen test pack is re-run and every previously passing case still meets its agreed check. A regression fails this check even if reported, and the report lists it first with its cause.
- Nothing was written to any live system by us, and originals are unchanged (checksums match).
- On 20 new transaction cases labelled by your accountant and held back until the acceptance run after a change, every expected sum and odd-item result matches. One wrong total, tax-code change or filing action fails this smoke test, and you receive the cases and rerun steps.
You read the report and test results and accept or send them back in writing. A month counts as delivered only when its agreed acceptance checks pass; receiving a report alone is not acceptance.
When we would stop or decline
- You want us to file or decide a tax treatment
- Nobody on your side reads the monthly papers for two months running
- The export layout changes and cannot be mapped
Questions
Do you submit the return?
No. Your accountant files, or you do.
Quarterly returns?
The papers run monthly and the full-period papers arrive when your quarter closes.
Price and terms
£149/month · untested offer price. Billing is monthly under the written terms we agree with you. Nothing is charged until you have agreed them.
This is a new service with no published client results. The price is a starting point we have not yet tested with buyers. Nothing is ordered or charged by the enquiry. The full specification is on the Synthetic Industry catalogue.