In their wisdom, the government will require all businesses to submit their VAT information using a software package, from April 2019. We understand that the government will not allow a business to submit information either on paper or by hand in any other way.
Use the BGT system, and you can file your VAT return electronically.
This is the Government's page on this:
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/making-tax-digital-reforms-affecting-businesses/making-tax-digital-for-vat-legislation-overview
Although we believe that this is a retrograde step (forcing tax payers to save the HMRC time and effort was never going to be easy) we recognise that there are benefits for everyone concerned. We are quite distrustful of many software companies who are seeing this as another opportunity to charge business for a very simple service (think of the standing charges businesses pay to take credit cards). We have noticed that the standard, minimum declared cost of software is over £100 per year. We believe this to be quite unnecessary.
So. Using the BusinessGT service, the electronic filing of VAT returns is FREE.
Yes. We are delivering MTD for our users FREE* -
But, you have to have a minimum of 10 Credits in your system (£10+vat).
* There is no extra or identifiable charge from BusinessGT if you electronically file your VAT return using the system functionality: either from using the full accounting system, or from using the Emergency-VAT facilities.
Please Note: Credits are purchased in multiples of 25 (£25 + vat), and your system consumes at least 2 credits a month:
You must have a minimum of 10 Credits in order to make a filing.
Here is a PDF User Guide,to use our system to complete your filing.