Tax · Reports & controls · 7 min read

Tax reports and the ledger check

Use the overview, the tax register and the two ledger reconciliations to prove that your return agrees with the books.

Before you begin

• You have tax.view.
• Documents for the period are posted. These reports read posted documents and the ledger only.

Tax overview

Tax > Overview shows what needs attention today.

• Tiles: Registrations in force, Active determination rules, Returns in progress, Needs attention.
• The Exceptions table, with Blocks or Check for each item: no registration; none in force today; a registration ending within 30 days; certificates ending within 30 days; posted lines without a tax code this quarter; unexplained return differences; no approved country package.
• Latest returns with number, period, status and payable.

Click a tile or an exception to open its list. From here you can also start New return or Simulate a determination.

Tax register

Tax > Reporting > Tax register lists every posted taxable line of the period: Document, Type, Date, Side, Tax code, Treatment, Net, Tax, Recoverable. Change the From and To dates. The totals line gives Output, Input, Recoverable and Net payable.

For the same period these totals equal the return's figures. Use it to answer an auditor: which documents make up a box.

Tax to ledger

Tax > Reporting > Tax to ledger shows, per tax account, the tax according to the documents and according to the ledger, and the Difference. In normal postings the difference is 0.00.

Documents against the ledger

Tax > Reporting > Documents against the ledger checks each posted document: the tax it records beside what its own journal moved on the tax accounts. A badge shows Every document ties or 'n documents do not tie'. Columns: Document, Date, Output (register), Output (ledger), Input (register), Input (ledger).

A document does not tie if its journal was edited, imported with different tax, or a manual tax journal was linked to it.

Steps: month-end tax check

1. Open Tax > Overview and clear any exceptions.
2. Open Documents against the ledger. Set the period. If documents do not tie, open them in Finance and correct them.
3. Open Tax to ledger. The difference should be 0.00.
4. Open Tax register. Note Net payable.
5. Prepare the return. The payable should equal the register's net payable, plus or minus any carried-forward refund.
6. Explain any remaining difference on the return.

Worked example

Posted for the period: invoice 1,000 + 50 SR; credit note 100 + 5; vendor bill 400 + 20; reverse-charge bill 1,000 (50 output, 50 input).

The register, the return and the ledger all show these. If the ledger shows output 100.00, a document's journal moved 5.00 more than the document says. Find it in the ledger check.

Good to know

• These reports are read only. Correct documents in Sales, Purchases or Finance, then run the reports again.
• Reports follow the tax code's current treatment, so changing a code's treatment after posting moves amounts between boxes. Avoid doing it (Tax codes and rates).
• Old reverse-charge bills posted before October 2026 may still owe the supplier the tax; the return then shows a difference against the ledger to explain.
• Company data is isolated. You only see your company's documents.