Start-up purchases not included in the vAT declaration for the current quarter

Hello,

Thank you for your question!

For the time being, we work purely on the basis of the invoice date, so the date of your purchase invoice determines for Dexxter in which vAT quarter your expenses will be included. Ideally, you should process your current expenses (from before you started) with an invoice date that falls within the current quarter. This way, it will take those expenses into account for quarter 3 and include them in your vAT declaration for quarter 3.

However, your question is high on our list of priorities. Before the end of this year, we will add the option to explicitly select the VAT quarter in which you want to add something. We will always make a suggestion for the vAT quarter based on the invoice date, but you will also be able to deviate from this yourself. This will be useful for expenses incurred before you started your business, for example. Thank you very much for your explanation.I have now updated the date of the 'pre-start-up' expenses to the current third quarter. This means that they will now be included in my vAT declaration for the current third quarter. This will certainly not be a problem for the tax authorities if I am audited in this regard (invoice date does not match the quarter of the return). I have never recovered the VAT from these pre-start-up expenses before, of course, and that is probably fine, but I would still prefer to double-check :-) Thank you for your additional advice.

Kind regards,

Murielle

No, it is not a problem at all if the date of entry and the date on your document are not the same.

Ideally, you should try to keep them the same as much as possible, but that's more for 'convenience'. This is also because Dexxter does a check for possible duplicate invoices, using the date of entry for this purpose. The tax authorities do the same.

But if there is a discrepancy, it's no problem at all! Especially with the explanation you can provide :)