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Does AllDone connect to HMRC to check VAT and PAYE balances?

No. Upload the HMRC statement of account instead, as a download or a screenshot, and AllDone ties the ledger position to HMRC's own record.

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Written by Steven Briginshaw

Quick answer

No. There is no connection to HMRC and nothing is submitted to it. What AllDone does instead is read the HMRC statement of account you upload, as a PDF, a spreadsheet or a screenshot of the online account, and tie it to what the ledger says.

What to upload

  • The PAYE statement of account from the client's HMRC online account, covering the company's year. Where the year spans two tax years, add the second statement. The payments history and the payment allocation pages read too.

  • The VAT statement, where you want the VAT position tied to HMRC rather than only to the filed returns.

  • The corporation tax statement, where the client has arrears or a time to pay arrangement.

Screenshots are fine. These are documents the firm or the client downloads, not something AllDone fetches.

What AllDone does with them

It walks the control account in the ledger from the opening balance through the charges and the payments to the closing balance, agrees the charges to the P32s or the payroll summaries month by month, and then compares the combined position to HMRC's own record as at the date on the statement. A payment that HMRC shows as received but that was made after the year end is picked up as exactly that, rather than treated as a difference.

The year-end creditor is confirmed head by head and itemised. It is never plugged to make the statement agree.

If you have not got a statement

The check says what it could not assess and what would let it run, and stops there. It does not turn a missing document into a finding, a difference or a client query. Upload the statement later and re-run the records check to complete it.

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