Generate a Tax File for the Belgium Tax Authorities
Use Tax File Generation to produce a tax file that contains tax reporting information to send to the Belgium tax authorities.
To generate a tax file for the Belgium tax authorities, complete the following steps:
- From the Vision Navigation menu, click .
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In the
File Format field on the General tab of the Tax File Generation form, select one of the Belgium tax file formats.
The options are:
- Belgium - Intra EU Community XML
- Belgium Client Listing XML
- Belgium VAT Declaration XML — For this report, you must enter gridnumber codes on the Tax Reporting tab of the Tax Codes form in .
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Select other criteria for the tax report output on the General tab.
- Only the fields that apply for the file format that you selected are enabled on the General tab.
- When you select the Belgium - Intra EU Community XML file format and you do not select the Cash Basis Reporting check box, the maximum amount of time that you can enter in the Range of Periods or Range of Dates field is 60 months. If you enter more than 60 months, you will receive an error.
- Click the Review tab and review the transactions and totals that will be included in the tax file.
- On the toolbar of the Tax File Generation form, click Generate File to create the tax file.
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On the File Download dialog box, select whether to save or open the TaxFile.xml file.
- If you choose to save the file, complete the entries on the Save As dialog box to specify the save location
- If you open the file, it displays in Windows Notepad or other XML software on your machine. You can then save the file in Notepad.
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When Vision asks if you want to print a detailed backup report, click
Yes if you want to generate:
- An Intra EU Community or Belgium Client Listing report, sorted by client, or
- A VAT Declaration report, sorted by gridnumber.
- Send the tax file to the Belgium tax authorities as you normally do.