About

My background is accountancy and software development and I am a qualified ACCA accountant. I have previous experience working as a senior programmer and I’m currently employed as a management accountant.

I have been filing VAT returns for my employers' various subsidiaries for some years now. Most times I've used Excel-based workings before submitting my VAT returns due to the complex adjustments needed between what the accounting package thinks and what needs to be filed to HMRC. The new rules introduced by MTDfB for VAT has lead me to search for an Excel bridge that would be simple to integrate into my Excel-based VAT workings. However the complexity of the solutions on offer have baffled me as I only want to submit the 9 VAT boxes without any extra bells and whistles.

As a consequence I made the decision to write a simple program that would be Excel-based and could be easily incorporated into current processes. “MTDfB VAT eSubmitter” is the result of this development.