VAT Outsourcing Services for UK Accounting Practices
Keep Client VAT Work Moving
VAT work repeats throughout the year, so growing client portfolios can quickly place pressure on internal teams. Our VAT outsourcing services provide additional preparation capacity around an agreed workflow while your practice retains appropriate review and client control.
Our Success Rate
We’ve provided VAT Outsourcing Services to thousands of companies across the UK.
What We Need From Your Practice
- Current bookkeeping records
- Sales and purchase information
- Previous VAT Returns
- VAT control-account information
- Relevant invoices or supporting records
- Details of known adjustments
- Practice instruction & required completion date
When Can VAT Outsourcing Help?
- VAT-return workloads are increasing
- Several client deadlines fall close together
- Bookkeeping require preparation before VAT
- Internal processing capacity is limited
- Staff need more time for technical review
- Your practice needs additional recurring VAT support
What Our VAT Outsourcing Support Can Cover
VAT Return Preparation
We can support the preparation of VAT-return workings using the accounting records and information supplied by your practice. Any missing information, unusual transactions or matters requiring technical consideration can be identified for your team rather than being assumed.
VAT Reconciliations
VAT control accounts and relevant accounting information may need to be reconciled before a return is ready for review. Our support can include agreed reconciliation work to help your reviewer understand how the VAT figures relate to the underlying records.
VAT Coding Review
Where included within scope, records can be reviewed for incomplete or unclear VAT coding before the return moves to your internal team. Items requiring a VAT treatment decision should be raised for clarification rather than resolved without appropriate information.
MTD for VAT Support
VAT-registered businesses generally need to keep specified VAT records digitally and submit VAT Returns using compatible Making Tax Digital software, unless an exemption or other specific exception applies. Our outsourcing workflow can support the preparation of VAT information within your practice's existing MTD process, subject to confirming the software and responsibilities involved.
Query Preparation
Completed work is organised and returned to your practice for its internal review and next steps. The aim is to provide a clear handover showing what has been prepared, which queries were resolved and which matters still require attention.
How Our VAT Outsourcing Process Works
Agree the Scope
We understand the VAT workload, client records, review requirements and expected output before work begins.
Receive the Records
Your practice provides the agreed bookkeeping data, previous information and relevant supporting documents.
Prepare & Raise Queries
The VAT work is prepared and any missing, inconsistent or unclear items are raised through the agreed query process.
Need More VAT Capacity?
Tell us about your VAT workload, current process and the type of preparation support your practice requires.
Common Questions VAT Outsourcing Services
It can include agreed VAT-return preparation, reconciliations, review of underlying records, query preparation and supporting workings. The exact scope is confirmed before work begins.
The required software and workflow should be reviewed during scoping. SHRM should only confirm compatibility with specific systems after those systems have been verified internally.
Submission responsibility should be agreed before the engagement begins. The website should not claim that SHRM automatically submits every outsourced VAT Return unless that delivery and agent arrangement has been formally confirmed.
Yes. The service can be scoped around a defined workload rather than requiring your practice to outsource its entire VAT portfolio.
Yes. VAT outsourcing can be a separate workstream where your practice already maintains or receives completed bookkeeping records.
