When a tax return is submitted, its status will be marked as "open" among the sent returns. To mark it as paid, the payment needs to be linked to the VAT return. Here's how to do that.
Paying the Tax Return
Check Settings
Before you can mark the VAT return as paid, you first need to check a setting. To do so, follow the steps below:
Navigate to Settings in the left-hand menu;
Choose Accounting settings;
Check the setting General ledger account VAT remittance. If not set, enter 1550 - BTW afdrachten.
Save to apply the change.
Payment via Bank/Cash
Once the payment to the tax authority has been made and you’ve uploaded the bank transactions, there will be a debit transaction matching the amount of the VAT return.
To link the VAT return to the payment, follow these steps:
Navigate to Bank/Cash in the left-hand menu;
Find the VAT payment transaction and open it;
Open the VAT declarations tab and select the paid declaration;
Click Save to register the payment.
The payment will now be linked to the VAT declaration, and the status of the VAT return will be updated to Paid.