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VAT returns, filled in from your own invoices

MyBooks adds 7.5% VAT as you invoice and as you record bills, then lays your monthly return out as NRS Form 002 with the schedules to upload. No rebuilding the figures on the 20th.

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How it works

  1. As you invoice

    VAT at 7.5% goes on each invoice as its own line, so the customer sees goods and tax separately and your records carry both.

  2. As you record bills

    The VAT you pay suppliers is recorded against each bill, which is what you take off at the end of the month.

  3. On the 20th

    Open the VAT return for the month. It is already filled in from those records, laid out line by line as NRS Form 002.

  4. Filing

    Download Form 002 as a PDF, and the sales schedule as a CSV in the column order the NRS upload template expects.

  5. Afterwards

    Mark the return filed and settle it, and the payment is posted to your books for you.

Laid out like Form 002

Not a summary you then have to translate. The return follows the numbered lines of the Nigeria Revenue Service's VAT Form 002, so what you see is what you file.

  • Sales, exempt and zero-rated supplies separated
  • Output VAT and input VAT on their own lines
  • Imports and VAT withheld at source entered where the form asks
  • VAT credit brought forward and carried forward
  • Sales and purchases schedules behind the figures
  • Every line traceable back to the invoice or bill it came from

What you can take to the tax office

Form 002 as a PDF
The return laid out as the form, with its schedules, ready to print or attach.
The sales schedule as a CSV
In the column order the NRS upload template expects, so it can go straight up rather than being retyped.
The purchases schedule
Everything behind your input VAT claim, in case a figure is queried.
Sales adjustments
Credit notes and corrections, separated, because that is where most queries start.

Check the upload file against the template you download from the portal before sending it. Templates change.

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See it on your own books

Book a demo and we will go through MyBooks with you, with your own figures, before you choose anything.

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