VAT Direct - Free Making Tax Digital bridging system and cloud cashbooks for smaller businesses

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VAT Direct

Home page for client of Cirrostratus. If this is your server please login. Otherwise please click on the link for the vat.direct home page. or watch some of the training videos



Nota Bene: Please note that HMRC require reauthorisation after 18 months. If the system is saying you need authorisation you probably need to reauthorise. That is on the ManageAuthorisations page. If you have an ASA you need to reauthorise that after 18 months.

Service Down:
We are intending to transfer our server to a new hosting service in the near future. We have not yet planned this, but we expect to stop running the service for a period of time at a weekend when this happens.

MTD ITSA: 5pm on Tuesday 24 June 2025 to 11am on Wednesday 25 June 2025. MTD ITSA: 5pm on Friday 11 July 2025 to 9am on Monday 14th July 2025.

For (further) information about Making Tax Digital down time see here
Note changes with MTD ITSA The start date on MTD ITSA periods is the start of the tax year for all of the periods because of the way cumulative submissions are made.


VAT Direct - How it works - documentation

Creating Digital Links and More Information about CSV files

Here are some training videos (if you want them bigger either click on full screen (bottom right of display when playing) or run from youtube directly: