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Workpapers - Ability to edit to meet compliance needs
Quite a few firms are using business fitness/their own custom workpapers in conjunction with Xero workpapers to meet their compliance needs. This is because some existing Xero workpapers e.g I2 - Finance Lease, S - Home Office, K - GST etc are not sufficient to meet our compliance needs. For example the home office workpaper does not contain the square metre rate method and there is no last year comparison for analytical review. No workpapers have been added to allow for new tax developments such as rental interest deductibility, rental loss limitation rules, mixed use assets to name a few.…
44 votesHi everyone, we appreciate the interest we've received in being able to edit Workpapers from our community.
As we continue to develop and release our new Workpapers solution to practices across the globe, this is something we know could benefit some practices (especially in NZ) and have it high on our radar as the team continue to plan their roadmap.
While this isn't in the pipeline yet we'l share if there are any updates for this, here.
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Xero Tax (UK) | Ability to change order of expenses in the detailed P&L of statutory accounts.
Ability to change order of expenses in the detailed P&L of statutory accounts.
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Workpaper | Fringe Benefits - Motor Vehicle private use
Have a workpaper for motor vehicle private use adjustments with calculators for FBT, logbook, and mileage reimbursement. Be able to have more than one like the home office workpaper does. And have this roll forward like the home office one does so that you can see the method used by the client and the FBT/logbook values etc.
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AU Tax | Tax Return summary - Show tax refund/payable column
To have a column in the return screen that shows the detail of the tax return (e.g. estimated tax payable / refundable and / or the Taxable Income amount).
Purpose: To make the accountant easily review the tax summary returned.
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Practice Manager - Re-ordering of tasks on a job
XPM has been updated recently (April 2025) and the update has removed the re-ordering of tasks function. We used the re-ordering function to put all tasks in chronological order e.g. monthly payroll tasks, VAT returns, year end accounts were all arranged in date order. Since the update all the re-ordering that we have completed on jobs have been changed and now all tasks are non-chronological and in a jumbled order. This is very frustrating. Please could Xero re-instate the ability to re-order tasks as required? These changes are a backwards step.
42 votesThanks for sharing your idea regarding manual reordering of tasks on a job.
We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it.
Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.
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NZ Tax - Ability to add multiple default email addresses for tax payment letters
Ability to add multiple email addresses for tax payment letters.
This would be great if looked into very soon.
We have been manually entering additional email addresses which is a bit of a worry if a character is misspelt.
When copy and paste is used the changes get made to all clients and is a real disaster.42 votes -
Xero Tax (AU) | Import from Xero with substituted accounting periods
I love the function of being able to import data from a Xero file/ledger directly into a Xero tax.
However, it seems that you can only import date to 30 June. It doesn't appear to be able to import for a substituted accounting period.
It would be helpful to be able to select the period to import.
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Multi-currency - Remove currency
Remove a currecy added in error and never used, which makes reports more complicated than need be (Source AND GBP in every Transaction report, implying we are multicurrency when we never have been)
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Practice Manager | Staff - Report/list of charge out rates
I would like to able to produce a list of staff and what their charge out rates are instead of going into each person individually.
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Workpapers - Ability to set period that workpaper is run across
Workpapers to run for periods (not just years) and for periods ending not on a month end.
The majority of my clients have a year end with 5 April. At the moment i would only be able to run the work papers to 31 March. I also have other clients with year end dates throughout the year.
In addition to this, I can only run the workpapers for a full year. What happens if a business ceases. Often we need to run a set of accounts, and therefore workpapers, for a shorter/longer period.
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Xero Tax (AU) - Livestock Trading on Market Value
The current livestock schedule in trust tax return (and probably others) is insufficient.
We calculate livestock on Market Value in the Financials and inset these figures into the Tax Return, then use the Reconciliation area to bring it back to Average Cost.
This worked perfectly fine in MYOB Tax, as we could overwrite the average cost calculation in the livestock trading schedule. However in Xero Tax we can't overwrite the closing stock value.
The best I've been able to figure is to eschew the livestock trading schedule altogether, inserting the sale under Other Business Income and manually filling out the…
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Workpapers - Automatically populate GST Adjustments
Have the GST from workpapers such as Entertainment and Home Office automatically populate the GST workpaper
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Report Templates - Option to only show logo on cover/front page
Option to choose where the logo is shown
Purpose: Consistency with brand/business internal guidelines. Formalities and looking professional to clients/stakeholders
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AU Tax - Bulk selection and status updates
Returns Management User Interface (UI) - "All" Tab Improvements/Customization
To improve handling returns by adding bulk selection and status update functionalities on the "All" tab of the Returns Management interface. Also, suggesting having a customizable UI to best fit our workflow preference.
Key Features:
Action Buttons
- Located in the table header, these buttons perform bulk actions such as "Approved", "Out to Sign", and "Sign". They remain disabled unless one or more return items are selected.Checkbox
- Each return item has an associated checkbox to allow selection. By default, these checkboxes are unchecked.Select All / Deselect All
-…41 votesHi everyone, appreciate the interest this idea is growing, however reviewing this post there are a few ideas wrapped up in the one and it'd be good for us to untie this to understand the needs and interest in each separately.
As currently designed, there are dedicated state tabs e.g Draft, Completed Approved etc from which you can select all and perform bulk actions. This also provides a total of the items selected in the list header.
Bulk actions are generally relevant to the state a return is in - For example being able to Approve is only relevant to returns currently in a Draft state.
It'd be good to get more feedback of your workflow here and why you'd be wanting to perform these bulk actions from the All tab rather than the dedicated state tab?
I've created a couple of new ideas to track the interest in being…
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Practice Manager - Bulk update jobs via import
Allow importing csv files to update existing jobs in bulk
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Practice tools | New Client - Option to add Staff
We work in small teams and it would be great if we could get a "Staff" drop down added for the client set up. So we could know the partner on the account, the lead accountant/manager and the staff member that works on the file so we know who to approach for various issues :)
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Practice Manager - Ability to archive Client Groups
Currently we are only able delete Client Groups in XPM. That means there are 'inactive' groups when the clients move on making it harder to see how many Groups you are actually working with.
It would be great to be able to Archive instead. This would keep the Group Count 'clean' and you can still report on Groups
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AU Tax - Ability to share Rental Property Schedules
The fact that it's so hard to get a rental property schedule to share from one return to the selected second client is very very very very annoying. If there were a button we could press to manually ask it to share across that would save endless saving, closing, opening, closing the whole program, turning off your computer and leaving my desk in frustration.
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NZ Tax - Edit payment schedule on tax return
Xero tax software needs to be amended so that a provisional tax payment requested based on the previous year plus 10% shows up as the first installment of provisional tax due in the xero tax return even though the client hasn't made the payment but is required to have paid by the 1st provisional tax date. At present shows as 0.00 which is incorrect based on the inland revenue rules. So at present have to copy the tax return to a pdf export to word and then manually amended the tax return to show the correct tax payment that was…
40 votesHi everyone, sorry we've not engaged here sooner. We want to share an update to provide some detail here.
Currently, if no payment is made on the first provisional date, then the amount owing moves to the second provisional date. The payment schedule is optimised to show payments in the future and will not reflect missed payments - There are no plans to make a change to how the payment schedule works.
On this basis, if you feel the schedule is incorrect we highly encourage you connect with our Xero Support team via Xero Central so we can take a closer look to investigate based on your specific case. Thanks
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AU Tax - Ability to include client phone number
When I use Xero tax it pre-populates the tax agent number overriding the previous entry in the previous year. We want this to be the client phone number due to we want the ATO to contact them.
Every tax return it is taking manual labour to change the phone number from the pre-populated phone number.
We'd like the option to pre-populate the client phone number like other client information.
We'd prefer to not have to delete any details to replace the phone number and this was resulting in tax return error.
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