The VAT Transaction report is a detailed report of all input and output transactions to the VAT account.

More details on VAT are available in 'VAT Processes'

You can specify a date range for the transaction. Dates can either be entered manually or selected from the pop-up calendar by clicking on the  icon. Dates must be entered in the format DD/MM/YYYY, for example, 01/01/2000.

When entering dates manually, a date guessing routine speeds up the input by taking the user input and assuming the missing month and or year based on the current date as the user leaves the field i.e.

the date today is 30th October 2009

• User enters 15 or 15/ and tabs - field displays 15/10/2009
• User enters 15/9 or 15/9/ and tabs - field displays 15/9/2009

You may encounter a situation where you need to enter items after the last VAT 100 report was accepted but with a tax point date prior to the end date of the last VAT period (e.g. you receive an invoice late).

In this situation the items will appear in the report even if the tax point date is prior to the beginning of the user selected date window for the report. This will make it easier to reconcile the report to the VAT 100 figures for the current period. After the current VAT period is closed by accepting the VAT 100 report the late item will only appear in the report appropriate to its tax point date. You can always save a copy of this report with the late transaction before accepting the VAT 100.

In "Current Mode" the report will report all VAT relevant transactions up to the specified date that have not yet been included in a VAT return .

In "Historic Mode" the report will report all VAT relevant transactions that were included in the selected VAT return.

Reports can be saved locally to your computer, or within the Liberty Accounts database.

If you are viewing a report in Adobe Acrobat you can save it by clicking on the file save icon within the Adobe Acrobat reader application.

If you are on the report parameters screen after generating a report you will see some extra options displayed as above. To save the report pdf file to your computer right-click on the "view report" link next to the Adobe  file icon and select the "Save target as" menu option.

If you want to save the report within the Liberty Accounts database simply give the report a meaningful name by editing the suggested report name then click the "Save" button. Reports saved within Liberty Accounts can be viewed at a later date via the menu option Reports | View Saved Reports.