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VAT in Boekhouden
Understand how the VAT profile, treatment, document date, payment and correction fit together.
The VAT treatment of a sale or purchase determines the amount payable or deductible and where it enters the administration. It must match the actual supply, customer, supplier and country; an account name or percentage alone is not enough.
Step by step
- 1Review the standard VAT profile and associated ledger accounts under Settings. Change them only when your actual situation differs.
- 2Choose the treatment that actually applies to each sales or purchase line. One document can contain lines with different rates or exemptions.
- 3Distinguish document, performance and payment dates. Under invoice accounting, the invoice date generally determines the return period; a payment does not change that.
- 4Use cash-accounting VAT only when the cash system applies to your situation. VAT due then follows amounts actually received.
- 5Correct revenue or VAT with an appropriate credit or correction document. A payment difference, customer credit or refund does not automatically alter the original VAT.
- 6Before filing, compare the recorded treatments and amounts with your documents. Boekhouden does not submit VAT, ICP or OSS returns for you.
What is on the screen?
- VAT profile and effective period
- VAT treatment per line
- Document, performance and payment dates
- VAT due and deductible input VAT
What happens next?
A posted treatment remains traceable to its document and period. Boekhouden calculates from the choices recorded but does not determine whether every tax condition or evidence requirement has been met. Ask an accountant or tax adviser to assess unusual or unclear situations.
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VAT settings and VAT accounts
Set the VAT regime, invoice or cash accounting, rounding and required account mappings.
Read guidance →VAT treatments
Distinguish rates, exemption, reverse charge, EU transactions, imports, margin and an explicit no-VAT choice.
Read guidance →Sales, receivables and receipts
Understand how a sale, open receivable, receipt, credit note and refund relate to each other.
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