Dear Support, (for a client)
The key filing dates on the dashboard show VAT Return period end dates as Feb, May, Aug, Nov. The company VAT settings show Mar, Jun, Sep, Dec and this is correct. VAT has been filed via QF for the last 12 months.
Why is the key filing dates menu showing incorrect dates? Hope you can help?
Hello @Bagpipe
The key filing dates on the dashboard are pulled down from HMRC from your tax account which has been linked to QuickFile.
For some reason QuickFile asks you for the VAT periods in the company settings in terms of the “month commencing”, i.e. the start month of each quarter instead of the more usual end months. So these two places are showing the same period dates, just expressed in two different ways.
Well done Ian and thanks. I never spotted that before!
Looks like I have a number of changes to make on my Affinity Accounts 
Hopefully it’ll only be the company settings that you need to change - even if you’ve had the company settings giving the wrong quarters your actual VAT returns will have been for the correct periods as those periods do come direct from your HMRC account.
Hi @ian_roberts - yes…just the company settings. It didn’t take long and I am now aware of it. Thanks again.
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