VATDEC Value added tax

Western European EDIFACT Board - MD3

This VAT Declaration Message (VATDEC) permits the transfer of data from a declarant to a national VAT collecting authority for the purpose of meeting legislative and/or operational requirements in respect of the declarations of VAT.

The declarant may be a taxpayer who is obliged to send VAT returns the authorities, or an accountant or others who on behalf of one several taxpayers send VAT returns to the authorities and who is mandated to do so by the authorities and the taxpayer.

The declaration may contain one or several returns.

The message may also be used, for example:

- within the European Union, to transmit VAT summary information for the Value Added Tax Information Exchange System (VIES) from a declarant to the relevant national VIES collecting authorities.

- to transmit other related or comparable VAT information from a declarant to the relevant authorities.

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Position
Segment
Name
Max use

  1. To head, identify and specify a message.

  2. To indicate the type and function of a message and to transmit the identifying number.

  3. To specify date, and/or time, or period.

  4. To identify a place or a location and/or related locations.

  5. Segment group 1
    Repeat 9999

    1. To specify the name/address and their related function, either by CO82 only and/or unstructured by CO58 or structured by CO80 thru 3207.

    2. Segment group 2
      Repeat 9

      1. To identify a person or a department to whom communication should be directed.

      2. To identify a communication number of a department or a person to whom communication should be directed.

    3. Segment group 3
      Repeat 9

      1. To specify a reference.

      2. To provide free form or coded text information.

    4. To identify an account and a related financial institution.

    5. To specify the instructions for payment.

    6. To transmit a processing indicator.

    7. To identify a place or a location and/or related locations.

    8. Segment group 4
      Repeat 99

      1. To specify date, and/or time, or period.

      2. To transmit a processing indicator.

      3. To specify physical measurements, including dimension tolerances, weights and counts.

      4. Segment group 5
        Repeat 9

        1. To specify summary information relating to the document/message.

        2. To specify a monetary amount.

        3. To specify physical measurements, including dimension tolerances, weights and counts.

        4. To specify percentage information.

        5. To transmit a processing indicator.

      5. Segment group 6
        Repeat 9999

        1. To identify a line item and configuration.

        2. Segment group 7
          Repeat 9999

          1. To specify the name/address and their related function, either by CO82 only and/or unstructured by CO58 or structured by CO80 thru 3207.

          2. Segment group 8
            Repeat 9999

            1. To identify a person or a department to whom communication should be directed.

            2. To identify a communication number of a department or a person to whom communication should be directed.

          3. To specify a reference.

          4. To identify an account and a related financial institution.

        3. To transmit a processing indicator.

        4. Segment group 9
          Repeat 9999

          1. To specify a monetary amount.

          2. To provide details of the function of a monetary amount.

          3. To specify percentage information.

          4. To transmit a processing indicator.

          5. Segment group 10
            Repeat 9

            1. To specify summary information relating to the document/message.

            2. To specify a monetary amount.

            3. To specify physical measurements, including dimension tolerances, weights and counts.

            4. To specify percentage information.

            5. To transmit a processing indicator.

  6. To provide control total.

  7. Segment group 11
    Repeat 1

    1. To specify results of the application of an authentification procedure.

    2. To specify date, and/or time, or period.

    3. To specify a reference.

  8. To end and check the completeness of a message.

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