Mortgage Brokers + VAT Return: The Challenge
As mortgage broker, preparing bank statements for vat return is a common but time-consuming task. Quarterly VAT returns require matching bank transactions to sales and purchase invoices. Working from PDF statements adds unnecessary time to an already tight deadline.
How BankScan AI Helps Mortgage Brokers with VAT Return
Instantly convert applicant bank statements to Excel to verify income, identify regular commitments, and prepare affordability summaries. For vat return specifically, BankScan AI extracts VAT-inclusive sales and purchases, zero-rated transactions, exempt supplies, inp automatically.
How Mortgage Brokers Handle VAT Return
When preparing bank statements for vat return, mortgage brokers need to Mortgage brokers request 3-6 months of bank statements from applicants, review them for regular income deposits, identify committed expenditure such a. BankScan AI automates the data extraction step.
Key terms you'll encounter: affordability assessment, committed expenditure, income verification, debt-to-income ratio.
How It Works
Upload bank statement PDFs
Supports all major banks. Upload 3 months per VAT quarter (standard scheme); 12 months for annual accounting scheme users of statements for vat return.
AI extracts what you need
Our AI extracts VAT-inclusive sales and purchases, zero-rated transactions, — formatted for mortgage brokers workflows.
Complete your vat return work
Download Excel files ready for vat return. Transactions split into VAT-bearing and non-VAT categories, with net and VAT amounts separated; must reconcile to Box 6 (total sales) and Box 7 (total purchases)
Supported Banks
BankScan AI works with all major UK and US banks, including:
Features for Mortgage Brokers — VAT Return
- Built for Mortgage Brokers — Saves 30-45 minutes per mortgage application on statement review, which adds up to 5+ hours per week during busy periods with 8-10 applications in progress
- Software compatible — Output works directly with Mortgage Brain, Twenty7Tec, Excel
- Built for VAT Return — Convert bank statements to Excel to quickly identify VAT-bearing transactions, match against invoices, and prepare your VAT return accurately.
- Key data extracted — VAT-inclusive sales and purchases, zero-rated transactions, exempt supplies, input VAT on expenses, output VAT on sales, EC acquisitions, reverse charge transactions
Compliance: Mortgage Brokers + VAT Return
When mortgage brokers prepare bank statements for vat return, specific compliance requirements apply.
- FCA regulations require mortgage brokers to conduct thorough affordability assessments under MCOB rules. They must verify income sources against bank statements, document their analysis, and retain records for at least 3 years. Anti-money laundering checks require scrutiny of the source of deposit funds.
- Legal basis: Value Added Tax Act 1994; VAT Regulations 1995; Making Tax Digital for VAT regulations (The Value Added Tax (Amendment) Regulations 2018)
VAT Return — Built for Mortgage Brokers
VAT returns due 1 month and 7 days after the end of the VAT quarter; late submission triggers a surcharge of up to 15% of VAT owed under the default surcharge regime
Try Free — Mortgage Brokers + VAT Return