Month: May 2019

• From 11.30pm on Saturday 8 June 2019 to 10.30am on Sunday 9 June 2019.
• From 11.30pm on Saturday 15 June 2019 to 10.30am on Sunday 16 June 2019.

A further period of scheduled maintenance will take place on 17 June 2019 from 9am to 5pm (at the latest) on the VAT APIs and the Online Tax Account. This release will fix a known issue allowing customers with a numeric period key to view previously submitted returns and their obligations periods will be marked as fulfilled. Customers will still be able to sign up to the service during this time.

Software will receive a 500 service unavailable message during these times.

This is to let you know that scheduled maintenance to the Making Tax Digital (MTD) VAT service will take place on Thursday 16^th MAY 2019 between 10pm to midnight.

As a result of the downtime you will be unable to use the VAT API service

The service availability page on GOV.UK has been updated to include details of the downtime.

We have been notified by HMRC:

Essential maintenance to the Making Tax Digital (MTD) VAT service has been scheduled from 4pm on Saturday 11^th May until 4pm on Monday 13^th May. As a result some services will be unavailable.

During the maintenance period, users will be unable to:

• Sign up for Making for Tax Digital,
• Create an Agent services account,
• View previous submissions and payment details,
• Set up new or cancel and amend existing direct debits,
• Review and update any business details.

HMRC will now be shuttering the VAT APIs from 5pm – 11.30pm on Saturday the 11^th May. Between these time users will NOT be able to submit VAT returns. We apologise for the short notice of this change to the service outage.