Hello, for the last 2 years I’ve completely missed that there is no figure in box 8 of my VAT returns despite making a lot of sales in the EU. We have now ticked the box ‘customer registered for vat in another EC country’ (this has never been checked before now and seems a bit nonsensical since our …

If you search “ Box 8 ” on this forum you’ll find quite a few discussions on this subject. Whether Box 8 is populated depends on whether the supplies are for goods or services.

HI Glen I have only found one thread that relates to my actual question. I have tried the suggestion but box 8 is still not populating. We are selling products to end consumers in the EU so ticking that box doesn’t seem obvious. However, we’ve tried both ticked and unticked and it’s still empty In…

Are you charging VAT to your clients in the EU or are you reverse charging the VAT?

we are charging VAT on supplies

Providing you have this option checked on your client settings any new invoice created should feature on box 8. [image] If you flagged this after the invoice was created, try going back to the invoice and re-saving.

HI Glen I’ll check all this and try re-saving the invoices again tomorrow. VAT reg. in another EC mamber state is defintely checked and country is in EU…

No problem, let me know if that works… If not I will jump into your account and have a quick look.

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little 3 August 2015 15:35 4

that was from this thread Box 8 Quickfile VAT return Total value of supplies to EC states ex VAT

I still can’t make sense of it