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  1. Documents Pack - When you have multiple people signing a document, it can be specified the order of the people signing the documents.

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    Hi everyone, while this is something our team began looking into, unfortunately this has been put down with other more immediate work taking priority.

    Hopefully they will be able to pick this back up down the track, but we'll move back to Submitted for now and continue tracking the interest here. I'll let you know if there are any more changes.

  2. Xero should be having a feature Statistical GL where one can enter statistical information or numbers which are vital for analyzing business trends.
    For example, If I am maintaining books of a restaurant and I want to record daily covers (footfall or number of customers) which can help me analyze revenue per cover, spend etc.
    There should an option to create some designated ledgers to input and maintain these statistical information which does not affect any financial statements but can be used for business performance analysis.

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  3. Removal of 'completed' jobs from the job list when preparing an invoice in XPM.

    Sometimes we invoice a parent client with multiple entities jobs appearing and this can be very hard to navigate when looking for current jobs to invoice - even if the status is marked to be invoiced. It would be more efficient if completed jobs just didn't appear in the list.

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  4. We generate Tax Payment reports by Group, so they can be checked in that order. This means the reviewer can get an overall picture of all the clients in a group.

    When we go to approve and send the tax letters, the onscreen order is only by Client (not to mention in first name order which is another serious problem!)

    You can filter by Taxable group but this only means you can select one group at a time to look at.

    Please can Group also be shown onscreen so the entire Tax Payments list can be sorted into either Group…

    10 votes

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    Appreciate sharing detail on how this improvement would better your practices workflow, Kathryn.

    We'll start to get a sense of the wider interest through your idea, and if there are any updates I'll be sure to share with you here. Thanks

  5. It would be useful for the client date of death field to automatically be pulled into the relevant tax return if field to save manual look up and entry when entering client tax returns.

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    We appreciate that with date of death now available as a field on a client record that some users would like to see this automatically pull through to the relevant tax return.

    While we don't have direct plans of this right now we're keen to get a sense of interest in this from our partners in community.

  6. Box 29 of the IR10 should match the taxable income per the main income tax return (IR3, IR4, IR6, IR7, etc).

    It would be helpful if when running an audit check on a tax return, XPM checks to see whether they match and notifies us when it does not match.

    Thanks!

    10 votes

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    Hi Caeden, thanks for sharing your idea about IR10 validation. It’s great to understand how automatically matching Box 29 with the main tax return could make audit workflows smoother.

    The community team has reviewed this and moved it to Gaining support, so it’s now open for votes and comments. If you’d like to see this in action, sharing a bit more about how you’d use it in your practice could help others understand its value.

    We’d also love to hear from anyone else with thoughts or experiences around this as it helps our team understand the impact. We’ll keep you updated as the idea develops.

  7. Making Tax Digital for Income Tax

    It would be nice to be able to export a report in a suitable format for clients to approve prior to submission

    10 votes

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    Thanks for sharing this idea about exporting reports for client approval before MTD Income Tax submissions.

    We appreciate you highlighting how important this workflow is for your practice.We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  8. When filing an SA100, allow us to change the Personal allowance of the client to match their actual tax code, so the return can be filed correctly. Currently on the generic tax code is catered for, and this doesn’t account for people who have different tax codes.

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    Thanks Karan, for submitting your idea!

    We've reviewed your idea, and it's now open for the community to support.

    Other Xero users can now vote for your idea and add comments to share how it could enhance their own Xero experience.

  9. Xero should add a filter option in Xero HQ to get a list of clients those who are paying wages.

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    Hi Josheen, thanks for sharing your idea. We're grateful for your engagement and letting us know the changes that matter to you.

    We've reviewed your idea for a filter in Xero HQ to get a list of clients who are paying wages, and now it can gain support from other community members.

    Along with votes, others can now comment to share additional detail about how this filter could improve their experience managing client payroll in Xero.🙂

  10. On Managed Fund Schedule can the transfer capital gains to tax return default to "yes" instead of "no" ?

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    Hi Lucy, thanks for sharing this specific feedback about our AU Tax module. We know that small adjustments to default settings can often make a big difference in streamlining a workflow.

    We've reviewed your suggestion to change the default option to 'Yes' for transferring capital gains to the tax return on the Managed Fund Schedule. Your idea is now ready to gain support and feedback from other tax preparers in the community.

    Along with votes, others can now comment to share if this default setting would better match their own process and improve efficiency when preparing returns.

  11. The option to filter the reports by tax returns that have been lodged as Final in a certain tax year would be beneficial.
    We could then cross check and archive clients as necessary.
    There are so many fields to choose from in the Fields and Criteria, but this is not one of them.
    It would save us from having to keep a manual list as some can get missed this way.

    10 votes

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    Hi Alison,

    We're grateful for your engagement and for this very specific and useful suggestion for reporting in Xero Practice Manager.

    We've reviewed your idea to be able to filter reports by tax returns that have been lodged as 'Final' for a specific year, and it's now open to gain support from other community members. We can definitely see how this filter would streamline end-of-year processes and remove the need to keep manual lists for cross-checking and archiving clients.

    Along with votes, other practices can now comment to share more details on how this reporting criteria would improve their own client management workflows.🙂

  12. When inputting R&D figures for a period of account longer than 12 months (i.e. where 2x corporation tax returns are needed), we are unable to put specific R&D expenditures in a specific corporation tax periods. This is an issue with overseas workers where the periods are pre and post 1 April 2024, and where expenditure is only eligible in one of the periods. As currently, the expenditure is pro-rated, this means that non-qualifying expenditure is being brought into one of the periods.

    Is it possible to create a feature which allows for the expenditure to be split correctly between the…

    10 votes

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    Grateful for your detailed suggestion for this idea, Jemma.

    We've slightly adjusted the title of the idea to allow other community members to easily find and support this idea.

    Along with votes, others can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero. We'll keep an eye on the engagement here.

  13. When each job is created, we manually have to add the contact to the job. If this is not done, the invoice that is pushed to Xero Blue doesn't have contact information and we are unable to utilise the automatic reminders etc. This requires manual monitoring and negates the efficiencies within Xero Blue.

    This manual process would be solved if we had the ability to set the Primary Contact as the default contact on jobs that are created. This could for example, be set up as a tick box in settings. This could give people the option to switch on…

    10 votes

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  14. We would like to be able to comment on the tax payment and save the comment, rather than making the comment and having to approve and then unapprove the letter to get it back to waiting for approval. This would also be good for tax notices that we ignore, as we can put a note as to why we are ignoring them.

    10 votes

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  15. It would be great if we could have repeating queries on Xero Ask so that it will automatically send queries requesting year end information or VAT return records without any human input. It would save a lot on admin time and give Xero accountants an edge.

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  16. Please add the ability for Xero Tax to directly upload a list of data (Excel or CSV) for;
    1. List of Assets for capital allowances where the business does not use Fixed Assets Module
    2. List of participators loans
    3. List of projects for R&D

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  17. Being able to complete timesheet using start and finish times as an option rather than just the option of filling out in hours/minutes spent on a job. This assists in tracking time throughout the day

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  18. Adding a disclaimer & changing the substantiation declaration on the tax returns - our old system used to have this that the client could sign which we would like to make adjustments to but we have to manually add this on to tax returns in Xero tax.

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  19. Is there a way to flag a client, ie Warning/Ban or make them Inactive but keep their history in Xero?

    We have a system that have a number of clients with similar/identical names and we would like flag a client for particular reason, ie account terms etc or ban etc.

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  20. We suggest to add the option to view TAX return versions when modifications are made to the return.
    We have found through our work that is an URGENT need to track changes made to returns for efficient audit and accountability.

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