// The Most Important Points at a Glance
What You'll Take Away from This Article
- A monthly check of tax-relevant entries should be standard practice.
- Four checkpoints: account/tax rate, tax rate/country, tax rate/product type, triangular transactions.
- The syscoon module provides ready-made views instead of manual filters.
How Your VAT Return Becomes a Standard Process
The VAT advance return isn't just a tedious obligation – it's your accounting's business card to the tax office. That's exactly why the data needs to be right. Odoo already gives you all the information you need directly in the journal items – you just need to put it to use.
A monthly review of your tax-relevant entries should therefore be a fixed part of your closing process. This way you catch discrepancies early, safeguard data quality, and avoid unnecessary queries from the tax office.
What Should You Check?
Account & Tax Rate
If you use tax-specific accounts (e.g. Revenue 19%), check:
Were only matching tax rates such as “19%” or “19% incl.” used?
Entries with deviating tax rates (e.g. “0%” or “Intra-Community”) can point to posting errors.
Tax Rate & Country
This is about matching the tax code to the partner’s country:
Does the tax rate match the country of delivery or the country group?
A classic case: “Intra-Community Supply” – but the partner’s country is Switzerland. That doesn’t add up and leads to errors in the VAT return.
Tax Rate & Product Type
Odoo distinguishes between goods and services, and this affects taxation. For example, was an "Intra-Community Supply" posted for a service product like "Consulting"? In these cases, the product type is often set incorrectly – which leads to incorrect tax filings.
Triangular Transaction
Was a triangular transaction involved in the invoice? You can filter and check for that too!
Support from the syscoon App
With the syscoon Tax Validation module, your monthly check becomes child's play:
Ready-made views show you all critical entries at a glance. You no longer need to build filters yourself – though if you like, you can still save your own favorites. This gives you full control over your tax-relevant accounting data at all times.
Conclusion
Your VAT return is only as good as the entries behind it. If you check account and tax rate, tax rate and country, tax rate and product type as well as triangular transactions every month, you'll catch errors before they reach the tax office – and save yourself time-consuming corrections and queries.
Make the check a fixed part of your month-end closing. With the syscoon Tax Validation module, the critical entries are right in front of you in ready-made views. Want to see what that looks like in your Odoo? Get in touch.