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.

Before you can mark the VAT return as paid, you first need to check a setting.

Under Settings > Accounting settings, the setting "General ledger account VAT remittance" should be filled in. The default category is 1550 - VAT payments.

When the payment to the tax authorities has been made and you upload the bank transactions, a statement will appear in Bank/Cash for the amount of the tax return.

To link the VAT return to the payment, click on the "VAT declarations" tab while processing the bank transaction. Under the VAT declarations tab, all submitted (outstanding) VAT declarations will be listed.

When you link the correct VAT declaration to the payment or receipt, the status of this declaration will change from "Open" to "Paid."

It's possible that the payment was made via a private account or another type of account. In that case, the payment won't appear in Bank/Cash, but you still want to register the payment.

In this case, you can register the payment via Advanced. In the Supplemental journal 'Memoriaal' and the payments journal, you can manually register the payment of the VAT return, ICP return, and supplementary return as well.