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  1. Automatic exemption of national insurance contributions for clients over state pension age. In many other accounts production softwares this is already automatic and is calculated from the date of birth. The more manual input there is, the more room for error and this is something that could easily be missed by someone who is used to automatic functions.

    14 votes

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    3 comments  ·  Xero Tax  ·  Admin →

    Hi everyone, I'm pleased to update you all that this feature has now been released! 

    Now, if you enter a date of birth and the client has a trade, Personal Tax will automatically set Class 4 NIC to exempt where the client has turned state pension in the prior year. 🙂

  2. Tax return audit check should include whether new keypoints 34-38 have been completed

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    0 comments  ·  Xero Tax  ·  Admin →

    Thanks for the idea here, Mike. Our team have made some recent updates and Xero Tax (NZ) will now provide a warning banner with suggestions to show where your tax return may require a review.

  3. Report that can show outstanding lodgement obligations filtered by year. If the report can also be updated from the ATO.

    21 votes

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  4. When you create a tax return for a client, the system doesn't pull through their address or email, this need to be automated from the info in HQ. Not sure why it doesn't pull through, when it pulls through NI number and UTR, why doesn't it pull through address or email, we have to physically select it from drop down box

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    0 comments  ·  Xero Tax  ·  Admin →

    Hi Bonnie, happy to share that the work here has now been delivered. You'll find that the clients Address, Telephone number and Email address should automatically populate in the appropriate field in Personal Tax. 😁

  5. Xero apparently creates and submits a CT600L when R&D is included on a return. I say apparently because you can't download it/see it but support assure me it is there and that is the idea, - we should be able to download this for review and aproval by client.

    5 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Xero Tax  ·  Admin →

    Hey Community 👋

    Just following on from Paul's last update, this is now live!

    Xero Tax now supports the production of the CT600L for RDEC claims going forward. 

    For more information on this, check out our 'What’s available in Xero Tax' article over on Xero Central.

  6. Import the beneficiary details (DOB & address) from green xero into the beneficiary area in the IR6 Trust tax return

    18 votes

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    3 comments  ·  Xero Tax  ·  Admin →

    Hey community - this is now delivered 🎉

    Last week our NZ Tax team rolled out an update to fulfil this request. 

    When a new IR6B Beneficiary schedule is created, and a relationship exists, Xero will now populate the date of birth and address from the client record.

    Thanks again for all the feedback around this idea! If there's further improvements you'd like to see in Xero Tax, be sure to share them with our team here on Product Ideas.

  7. The ability to pull in data such as P60 amounts, Class 2 NI amounts, state pension amounts etc that HMRC have available. Other softwares have this function.

    4 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Xero Tax  ·  Admin →

    Hi everyone, returning now a few months on from our last update we're going to move this idea to 'Delivered' with the change the team made to personal tax 🥳

    You can now download a report directly from HMRC for each of your clients. Our helpful Xero central content will guide you on how to authorise you software to do this. Once the software is authorised, open your client's tax return and click on Download HMRC data in order to download the report. The report includes data on employment, other pension income, state benefits, NIC and marriage allowance.

  8. This is NOT an idea, more an omission from the product.
    FOREIGN Capital Gains (foreign CGT ON STOCKS AND SHARES) Is not available in XERO TAX.

    Case Ref CX0013265560
    "I am trying to report FOREIGN Capital Gains (foreign CGT ON STOCKS AND SHARES) in an individuals personal tax return. However am unable to find a schedule in XERO TAX that covers this. Please can you assist"

    3 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Xero Tax  ·  Admin →

    Hi Jag thanks for raising this with us - this was always on our roadmap to support, and I'm pleased to say that last week we released the ability to support foreign tax credit relief on capital gains.

    To report a foreign gain/loss you just need to add it into the relevant type (we don't break the disposals down by whether they are foreign or not. Then, if you need to report foreign tax or SWT on this disposal, go to the "Foreign tax credit and SWT" section in the capital gains schedule to report this.

  9. When entering the average number of employees in the notes, it would be great if Xero could bring forward the amount entered in the previous year to save time checking what it was!

    16 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Xero Tax  ·  Admin →

    Hi everyone, thanks for voting on the idea here. We've made an update in Xero Tax in the UK that now accommodates your needs here. Employee amounts will now roll forward when you add the average number of employees to the notes.

  10. In the tax return tab we have the ability to have HOLD as a state/status so that they don't sit in complete or file.

    8 votes

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  11. Tax Return Report - Professional Services Firms List

    Can you to generate a report for trusts and partnerships to show me the Main business activity industry code and description. You only have the option to do it for indivduals and companies.

    1 vote

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  12. Currently the 'Reason for reducing payments on account' on the 'Payments on Account Screen' of personal tax is limted to 100 characters. It's not enough!

    1 vote

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    0 comments  ·  Xero Tax  ·  Admin →

    Thanks again, John - Happy to confirm that this is now in place and you'll find you shouldn't be restricted to 100 characters any longer. We've lifted it up to the 0000's 😁

  13. It's not currently possible to tick box 53 of the UK ITR CGT pages to state that the return contains a valuation - can this be added. Otherwise the software is not useable when you have a CGT disposal with a valuation or estimate

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    1 comment  ·  Xero Tax  ·  Admin →

    Hey Wendy, 👋 thanks for raising this idea. I'm popping in to switch it across to delivered! We recently rolled out the ability to tick box 53 for NRCGT, so you will be able to do this going forward 🎉

  14. It would be great if Xero could extract data from the form W-9 and update the associated fields in the contact.

    1 vote

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    0 comments  ·  Xero Tax  ·  Admin →

    Hi Elizabeth, I know it's been some time since you initially raised this, and hopefully you've already seen that we have now delivered a solution for W-9 that solves your idea here 😊 You can find more detail on how you can request W-9 details from your 1099 contacts on Xero Central. Thanks for sharing and engaging with us in Product Ideas.

  15. Tax Payments – It would be good if we could have a BULK unapproved feature in all tabs, i.e. approved, sent, ignore.

    At the moment we have to click on each client and unapproved which is very time consuming.

    5 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Xero Tax  ·  Admin →

    Hey community, thanks for sharing this idea - it’s now live in NZ Xero Tax 🎉

    You can now unapprove multiple payment reminders at once. To do this:

    1. Go to Tax > Payments
    2. Click on either the Approved, Changed or Sent tab
    3. Select the reminders to be unapproved
    4. Click the Unapprove button
    5. Click Yes to confirm

    Thanks again for all the feedback around this idea! If there's further improvements you'd like to see in Xero Tax, be sure to share them with our team here on Product Ideas.

  16. Currently, in the UK you can export an iXBRL file from Xero Tax but if you try to import that file into other tax software it is not compatible and creates an error message in the other software.
    This is an issue at my firm as the Tax department insists on using Alphatax for all CT Returns and this has meant that we cannot use Xero Tax to prepare statutory year-end accounts as we have to prepare the iXBRL tagging file in other software that is compatible with Alphatax.

    6 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Xero Tax  ·  Admin →

    Thanks for your input on this one, Louisa. Xero Tax now offers the option for our partners to continue utilising the automation and efficiencies of our accounts production tool for FRS 105 and FRS 102 1A and then export the iXRBL file into your existing Corporation Tax software, such as AlphaTax, to file the CT600. If that's the workflow for you, you'll notice some cool tweaks to the process such as the ability to manually adjust the tax provision in the accounts from the dashboard before filing them with Companies House. After creating a new filing you'll see the option on our 'Filing Options' screen where you can elect to prepare the CT600 in Xero or file it externally.

  17. To have the ability to customise/edit cover letters in Xero Tax.

    Purpose: This will make clients who have different trading names and legal names can easily edit it.

    23 votes

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  18. Functionality to be able to submit Sole Trader/Freelancers/Counsellors tax returns on cash basis.

    2 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Xero Tax  ·  Admin →

    In order to file a self assessment tax return for self employment income on a cash basis this needs to be selected from within the self-employment schedule.


    Below the accounting period start & end dates there is a Yes/No toggle to switch over to 'Yes' if cash basis is being used in the accounting period 🙂

  19. To include customer’s BSB and account number in the ELD form.

    Purpose: To make taxpayers able to verify their bank details as they sign the form.

    21 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Xero Tax  ·  Admin →

    Hey community, great news! 

    We’ve made some updates to the ITR forms, and you’ll now see a section labelled ‘Your Banking Information’ with the customer’s BSB and Account Number.

    Because of this change, we’ll be shifting this idea to delivered 😄

  20. Ability to have a tax estimate included in a trust tax return where there is tax payable/refundable.

    Purpose: To easily estimate and calculate Estate Tax Returns for all deceased clients.

    173 votes

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    30 comments  ·  Xero Tax  ·  Admin →

    Hey community, thanks to everyone that added their votes and feedback to this idea!

    Understand that previously, determining the estimated tax payable by the trustee of a deceased estate involved a bit of manual calculation work. I’m happy to confirm that this can now be calculated from within Xero Tax.

    For the steps to calculate this, and a bit more info, we've updated our Xero Central article ‘TRT – Cover and Income sections

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