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VAT return period and frequency
Record when monthly, quarterly or yearly filing starts and use fixed periods.
The return frequency is a separate choice with an effective date. Boekhouden does not derive it from legal form, financial year or earlier postings.
Step by step
- 1Choose Monthly, Quarterly or Yearly according to the filing notice or arrangement that applies to you.
- 2For quarterly filing, choose calendar quarters or the continuous non-calendar cycle actually assigned to you.
- 3Start a later frequency change on a date that both closes the complete old period and opens a valid new period. Boekhouden never shifts that date silently.
- 4Two non-connecting quarterly cycles cannot follow each other directly. First switch at their shared boundary to a suitable intermediate frequency, such as monthly.
- 5A yearly return always starts on 1 January and ends on 31 December.
- 6When calculating, choose the year and an available period. Check the displayed date range, including historical frequency changes and non-calendar quarters. You do not enter an arbitrary start date.
- 7Confirm an incidental filing duty under KOR or without ordinary VAT registration only when it genuinely applies to this period.
What is on the screen?
- Effective date
- Month, quarter or year
- Calendar or non-calendar quarter cycle
- Incidental filing duty
What happens next?
Each period has one fixed coverage. An effective date that causes a gap, overlap or incomplete old or new period is rejected clearly and leaves the existing setting unchanged.
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Calculate a VAT return
Calculate a period from recorded VAT sources and review each return section.
Read guidance →VAT settings and VAT accounts
Set the VAT regime, invoice or cash accounting, rounding and required account mappings.
Read guidance →KOR and an incidental VAT return
Deliberately confirm an incidental period when filing is still required under KOR.
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