What is an entity?

An entity is a sole trader incorporated company or other organisations such as trusts, charities and public bodies (for example, NHS trusts, government departments and local authorities).

What is the single entity feature?

The single entity feature allows you to create an individual entity that requires the preparation of one VAT Return per obligation. For more information, please refer to the Single entities section.

What is the group entity feature?

The group entity feature allows you to establish a group, where there will be one representative member and a number of group members.  

The group members will be able to prepare their individual VAT Returns. Once this has been done, the representative member will be able to consolidate the group VAT Returns and into a single VAT Return that can be submitted to HMRC on behalf of the group.  

The group entity feature is only available to customers who have an AlphaVAT licence. For more information please refer to the Group entities section.

What is the demo entity feature?

The demo entity feature allows you to experience the end to end process of digitally submitting a VAT Return for a single entity within a simulation environment, using data that we have provided. You can use this simulation to familiarise yourself with the system and try out functionality, without the need to actually submit a real VAT Return.

Using this feature will not generate an actual test submission to HMRC's APIs, since they have not provided a way to do this in their live environment.

Note: You cannot use the demo entity feature with Group entities.

For more information on how to use the demo entity feature, please refer to the Demo entities section.

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