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  1. Please segment out the user permission for the ability to pre-lodge in tax returns to a separate, granular security option, so that we can nominate specifically by user who is able to pre-lodge to the ATO, given this transmits data to the ATO (and we would like to restrict this so it is completed only by certain users and at certain stages of the preparation process rather than 'too early' when the return is still very much subject to review and change).

    17 votes

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    Hi everyone, thanks for helping us understand your workflow needs.

    We can see how having a separate permission for pre-lodgement could help practices manage access more effectively and better align with their internal review and approval processes before information is sent to the ATO.

    I've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue gathering feedback and better understand how more granular permission settings in Xero Tax could support different practice workflows.

    Please keep sharing your votes and examples of how this could work for your team.


  2. Currently the IR10, Box 60 says 'Investment Boost Claimed', but this is misleading as the amount that needs to be entered is the value of the assets which are having Investment Boost claimed.

    The IRD's IR10 Guide calls Box 60 'Total value of Investment Boost asset(s) being claimed'.

    Please change the name of Box 60 to match the IR10 guide. This will make it easier for users to enter the correct amount.

    15 votes

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    Hi everyone, thanks for raising this.

    We can see how clearer wording in Box 60 of the IR10 could help reduce confusion during year-end filing and support more accurate reporting of Investment Boost assets.

    I've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support, so if this is an update you'd like to see, we encourage the community to vote.

  3. After filing a tax return why not automatically add it to the bills to pay section of the dashboard as you already have all of the information??

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    Hi everyone, appreciate the detail you’ve all shared around this. We understand you’re looking for GST lodgements to automatically create the related bills or invoices in Xero, so your tax obligations are reflected in your accounts without manual steps.

    Having this connection between GST filings and transactions could help make reconciliation and tax workflows more seamless.

    We’ll continue to track feedback and interest from the community for this idea for our Product team's assessment.


  4. On HMRC ASA there is a list of clients signed up for MTD for IT with references starting 'X*IT'. These references should be available to Xero so it would be good for that reference to show in Xero within the MTD tab

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    Thanks for raising this idea with us, and we are happy to move this to Gaining Support. However we would love if you can give us more details on how this would look, and how this would improve your MTD for IT experience.

    You can share this idea with your friend and colleagues so they can vote and comment. This will make it easier for the Product team to gauge community interest in the idea.

  5. It would be helpful to have a check box for each section of the tax return that marks it as completed so you know what is done and what still needs to be done.

    We find that we have to continually go back and check which sections are completed and which are not which can be time consuming, especially if you are working on multiple tax returns at once or if you are going between tax returns waiting on information from clients. An overview of some sort or a check mark beside each schedule would be very helpful.

    2 votes

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  6. I note that HMRC does not offer a submission receipt for MTD for ITSA. Could Xero generate a PDF stating that the return has been filed, as other than taking a screenshot we have nothing we are able to send to the client confirming the return is submitted

    3 votes

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  7. Currently for businesses there is a restriction to report 10 categories for landlords. I have landlords with more than 10 properties and who want to report by property but the MTD submission won't allow more than 10.
    Please can this be increased for landlords with a large property portfolio

    4 votes

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    🌟 Thanks so much for sharing your idea with us, and for taking the time to explain how increasing the number of tracking options for MTD for Income Tax could make managing larger property portfolios easier in Xero.

    We’ve reviewed your idea and moved it to Gaining Support so other community members can vote and comment on how this could improve their experience too. This helps our product team get a better understanding of the interest in this feature, the different customer scenarios it would support, and the impact it could have for those managing property income through MTD for IT.

    If you know others this could help, feel free to share the idea with them so they can add their support as well.

  8. We would like to request that the Sales Tax report for each invoice be shown as a single total amount in one bill, without itemizing the individual items in the Sales Tax report.

    This format will help us track and reconcile invoices more easily. When the Sales Tax is itemized, it becomes difficult for us to monitor and match the invoices accurately.

    We appreciate your support and look forward to your assistance on this matter. Please let us know if you need any further information from our side.

    5 votes

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    Hi community, appreciate raising this idea in the forums here and we'll start to get an understanding of the interest around this.

    As tax can differ per line of an invoice this audit report provides a detailed account of the transactions lines that make up your tax and we want to be open that we don't have plans around changing this view right now.

    In the meantime, for reconciliation purposes you may find running the Receivable Invoice Summary report useful.

  9. It would be really great to separate out the "Completed" and the "Audit Check" button in XPM for the tax returns and have them side-by-side rather than having the "Audit Check" hiding inside a drop-down menu behind "Completed".

    These have two vastly different outcomes - the "audit check" is great for checking things are completed correctly (especially great for learning staff), but this is only accessible by clicking on the little arrow beside the "complete" button. If the "complete" button is accidently hit... it's stupendously annoying.

    Many people don't have the authority to reverse clicking on "complete" i.e. to unlock…

    3 votes

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    ✨ Thanks for sharing this idea with us Philippa and detailing how separating the Audit Check from Completed is a desirable improvement. We’ve reviewed it your idea is now open for other community members to vote on and comment on, so they can share how this change would impact their practice too. That feedback is really helpful for our team as it gives us a better understanding of the level of interest and the workflow impact for customers.

  10. It should be a straightforward matter of going into a transaction to change its status from GST included to GST excluded or no tax, instead of having to remove, redo, undo reconciling and then reconciling the whole thing again etcetera. Especially when there is a file attachment, this is a very awkward, convoluted operation. I daresay in MYOB it is very simple. Just check transaction report, find any faulty coded ones, correct, rerun report, done.

    4 votes

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    Hey Margriet, thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.

    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.

  11. I have a US corporation in Xero which primarily does business in Canada and collects/remits Canadian sales tax. The rules for a US company are not robust enough to account for Canadian sales tax.
    It's common for expenses in Canada to have some combination of taxable/nontaxable amounts. In a Canadian corporation I can manually adjust the tax amount to easily manage these situations, but I can't in a US corporation. Can you add the option to manually adjust tax amounts in US corporations?

    6 votes

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    Hi everyone, thanks for sharing this idea. We understand that for US organisations managing cross-border expenses, tax differences can sometimes make data entry and reconciliation more complex.

    We hear the request for more flexibility to manually adjust sales tax on expenses, especially where foreign tax rules like GST or HST don’t align with default calculations.

    We’ve moved this to Gaining Support so we can track interest and help our product teams review the value of extending manual tax override options to US organisations for cross-border expense scenarios.

  12. Would it be possible to create an annual CIS subcontractor statement, showing the Gross, CIS deductions and net payments for all 12 months in the tax year please?

    39 votes

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    Hi team, we appreciate interest in a specific annual CIS statement. While this isn't in our immediate plans right now you can run the CIS Contractor return for a custom date range.

    If you then select individual subcontractors and download this will be the annual statement.

    We'll continue to track interest from community in the idea here and if there's any news will share for you all.

  13. For future reference, I would like to share the solution we received, as it was much simpler than the long winded process that had been suggested by Xero support

    Following the change to our payroll Branch ID, it is correct that employees will see two income statements in their ATO/myGov account after STP finalisation. However, the important distinction is that the two income statements have different statuses—one is marked "Tax Ready" and the other is marked "Not Tax Ready."

    Based on the advice from our tax agent, employees should use only the income statement marked "Tax Ready" for their tax…

    2 votes

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  15. Can you add Excess Contributions Tax estimated tax calculation in Div 293 section?

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    Thanks for highlighting this opportunity. We understand the request for Xero Tax to calculate Excess Contributions Tax when preparing Australian tax returns.

    We've updated this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest from the community. If this would improve your workflow, add your vote and share how this would support your tax preparation process.

  16. It would be useful to be able to automatically import the individual partner profits from partnership tax directly in the partnership schedule within personal tax. This would increase efficiency and reduce the likelihood of errors.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you. We appreciate you sharing how a direct link between partnership and personal tax returns could support your workflow. This idea is now in Gaining support status, which means our community team have reviewed it and it's open for community support through votes and comments. We'd love to hear from others about how this could benefit your practice, so please continue to share your feedback and vote if this resonates with you.

  17. U.S. State Returns - USE TAX PROCESSING NOTES
    6/10/26
    Note: the following notes are based on treatment of Use Tax in California and South Dakota. I believe that the procedures listed would apply to most states that impose a Use Tax.
    What is Use Tax?
    Use Tax is the term used to describe the “Sales Tax Equivalent” that applies when an organization purchases a taxable item/items from a vendor and the invoice for the purchase does not contain a charge for the appropriate sales tax. The amount of the Use Tax is typically the same amount as the Sales Tax…

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    Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

    Did you know you can join our Xero Research panel to be involved in early testing and research? Find out more and sign up through our website 🙂

  18. Why does Xero not pre-fill the Private Health Insurance information of someone who is on their family's PHI?
    i.e. a young adult/teenager who is still on their parents health insurance. (Code F on the tax return).

    I am having to manually enter the information every time I create a return for one, which is frustrating given that the information is already on their ATO pre-fill report, and it prefills fine for their parents.

    6 votes

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    Hi Emily! We really appreciate your feedback on this. At this moment, the information we pull is directly from the ATO exclusively for one sole return, and so won't automatically fill into the young adult/teenagers return as you've found.

    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!

    We'll keep an eye on any traction this gets in the community and will keep you updated if there are any updates. Thanks.

  19. Hi Xero Team,

    I would like to suggest a feature enhancement that would greatly benefit users in the Philippines.

    Currently, when generating reports (such as Transaction Reports, General Ledger, or Contact-based reports), there is no option to display the Tax Identification Number (TIN) and registered address of contacts as columns.

    Including TIN and address fields in report columns would significantly improve efficiency and accuracy in preparing BIR compliance reports such as:

    • SLSP (Summary List of Sales and Purchases)
    • QAP ( Quarterly Alphalist of Payees)
    • SAWT (Summary Alphalist of Withholding Taxes)

    At present, users need to manually extract or cross-reference this…

    2 votes

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    Hi Georgia, thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you. We'll open this idea up to the community so they can share their thoughts and add their votes. In the meantime, please feel free to share this with your friends and colleagues who might find this feature useful as well. Cheers

  20. To have the option to remove the draft bill feature when lodging your BAS through Xero. At the moment, the system automatically creates the draft bill when lodging your BAS and we are manually going back and deleting the draft bills.
    It would be great to have option to disable this feature

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    Thanks for sharing your feedback on draft bill creation during BAS lodgement. We appreciate you explaining how this impacts your workflow.

    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.

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