The best digital VAT softwarefor a small business is the one that gets the boxes right. Vatnix shows you the figures first, free.
The arithmetic behind a UK VAT return, worked from your own figures: any receipt or invoice split into net and VAT at 20%, 5% or zero, the box of the return each total lands in, the £90,000 rolling-twelve-month registration threshold, and the free Making Tax Digital software compared on the one thing that decides it.
If this is a purchase: box 7, net value of purchases · £100
Built for UK VAT only
The sole trader, one-person company or small business doing its own VAT return, and nobody else
Work the VAT. Read the boxes. Keep the records behind both.
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Net, VAT and gross from any figure, at any UK rate
Type the number on the receipt, say whether it already includes VAT and at which rate, and get the split back. The VAT on a £120.00 standard-rated receipt is £20.00, and the tool shows why it is one sixth of the total rather than a fifth of it.
2
Which box every total lands in
Sales and purchases sorted into the boxes the return asks for: the net of a purchase into box 7 and its VAT into box 4, the net of a sale into box 6 and its VAT into box 1, so the return is a total rather than a guess.
Every quarter saved with the figures behind each box, the rolling twelve-month taxable turnover tracked against the £90,000 threshold, and the digital records Making Tax Digital asks for, ready to hand to whoever submits the return.
Tools
The tools, free and open
Free on the page, no account, no trial clock. Vatnix Pro keeps the quarters, the figures and the digital records Making Tax Digital asks you to keep. We work out the numbers; HMRC-recognised software files them.
gov.uk: Charge, reclaim and record VAT: Charging VAT20 %
gov.uk: VAT rates20 %
gov.uk: VAT rates20 %
gov.uk: VAT Flat Rate Scheme : Work out your flat rate16.5 %
gov.uk: VAT guide (VAT Notice 700)15 %
gov.uk: VAT rates on different goods and services5 %
gov.uk: VAT rates on different goods and services5 %
gov.uk: VAT rates on different goods and services5 %
The top 8 of 25, highest first.Table view
Row
Value
gov.uk: Charge, reclaim and record VAT: Charging VAT
20 %
gov.uk: VAT rates
20 %
gov.uk: VAT rates
20 %
gov.uk: VAT Flat Rate Scheme : Work out your flat rate
16.5 %
gov.uk: VAT guide (VAT Notice 700)
15 %
gov.uk: VAT rates on different goods and services
5 %
gov.uk: VAT rates on different goods and services
5 %
gov.uk: VAT rates on different goods and services
5 %
Why not just use a full accounting package?
Need invoicing, bank feeds, payroll and a per-seat licence? Buy one. Need this quarter's VAT worked right, the boxes tied to the figures behind them, and the records kept, for one flat price? That is this.
The VAT arithmetic and the boxes
Vatnix: The product itself, next to the free calculator that does it
A general ledger prices for the whole of a business's books and asks you to run the whole of them. Most of a small trader's VAT trouble is one question: which figure goes in which box, at which rate: and that is what this does.: One report inside a ledger you have to run first
Price for one business
Vatnix: £29 a month, flat, however many quarters
A general ledger prices for the whole of a business's books and asks you to run the whole of them. Most of a small trader's VAT trouble is one question: which figure goes in which box, at which rate: and that is what this does.: A per-user fee, then a tier for the VAT module
Try before an account exists
Vatnix: The calculator computes free, no card, no trial clock
A general ledger prices for the whole of a business's books and asks you to run the whole of them. Most of a small trader's VAT trouble is one question: which figure goes in which box, at which rate: and that is what this does.: A 30-day trial and a card up front
Submitting to HMRC
Vatnix: We never file. We work the figures and keep the records; you or your accountant submit
A general ledger prices for the whole of a business's books and asks you to run the whole of them. Most of a small trader's VAT trouble is one question: which figure goes in which box, at which rate: and that is what this does.: Submits, and prices for the whole ledger to do it
Built for
Vatnix: UK VAT-registered small businesses and sole traders, only
A general ledger prices for the whole of a business's books and asks you to run the whole of them. Most of a small trader's VAT trouble is one question: which figure goes in which box, at which rate: and that is what this does.: Every business with a bank account
One thing a general package does that this deliberately does not: submit the return to HMRC. That needs HMRC-recognised software. Vatnix works the figures and keeps the records; the submission is yours or your accountant's.
Vatnix Pro
£29
per month, whole business
The answer is yours. Keeping the quarter is Vatnix Pro.
The calculators and their answers are free forever. Pro turns them into your VAT record: every quarter kept with the figures behind each box, sales and purchases held as the digital records Making Tax Digital asks for, the rolling twelve-month turnover tracked against the threshold, and the lot exportable for whoever actually submits the return.
Vatnix Pro is £29 per month for your whole business, billed monthly. Billed monthly. Cancel any time from your account page. Price and renewal terms are shown before checkout.