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Reverse Charge Sales List (UK only)

From 1 June 2007, to combat the billions of pounds that are lost as a result of VAT carousel fraud or Missing Trader Intra Community (MTIC) fraud, significant changes to UK VAT law came into effect.

If you trade in mobile phones or computer chips with other VAT registered companies, either as part of your day-to-day trading or for your business' own use, and the value of these goods exceeds £5000 on an invoice, you must account for the sale and purchase of these goods in a particular way, called Reverse Charge.

You then have to generate a Reverse Charge Sales List for submission to HMRC. You can do this using the Reverse Charge option.

You can access the reverse Charge option from Company > Manage VAT > Reverse Charge.


To calculate and save the Reverse Charge Sales List

  1. Enter the date range for the RCSL in the For the period and to boxes > Calculate.

Note: The RCSL groups customers by VAT registration number. This means that if you have two customers that are owned by the same parent company, and therefore, have the same VAT registration number, their transactions are grouped together on the Reverse Charge Sales List as a single entry.

  1. To check the transactions that make up the totals, click the drill-down button for each customer. Alternatively, select a row then double-click or press F3.

  2. Click Save.

You can also submit the reverse charge sales list to HMRC using the CSV file produced by Sage. The files can be found in the following location:

Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista

C:\ProgramData\Sage\Accounts\2014Company.[number]/RCSL Archive

Windows XP

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Sage\Accounts\2014Company.[number]/RCSL Archive


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