Goods and Services Tax management overview

Value Added Tax (VAT) is an indirect tax on the consumption of goods and services. GST is levied at each stage of the supply chain where value is added from initial production to the point of sale.

Setting up GST

The following table lists articles that can help you get started with GST in Business Central.

Article	Description
Set Up Goods and Services Tax	This article provides information to help you correctly calculate, post, and report on GST for sales and purchases.
Posting Group Setup	This article provides an overview of the GST and other posting groups you can use to save time and avoid mistakes when you post transactions.
Set up nondeductible GST	This article provides information about how to properly to set up nondeductible GST related to percentages and accounts.
Set Up Unrealised Goods and Services Tax	If you use cash-based accounting, this article provides guidance about how to specify handling unrealised GST for sales and purchases.
Set Up a GST Statement	This article provides information to ensure that you know how to set up a GST statement template and names to meet changing tax authority requirements.

Using GST features

The following table lists articles that can help you start using GST features in Business Central.

Article	Description
Work with GST on Sales and Purchases	This article describes various ways to work with GST using a manual or automatic setup. This article guides you on how to meet country/region-specific regulations.
VAT reports	This article provides information about the built-in reports for GST.
Submit GST Reports to Tax Authorities	This article explains how to prepare reports that list GST from sales during a period, or from sales and purchases, and then submit the report to a tax authority.
Use nondeductible GST	This article explains how to use and report nondeductible GST.
EU third-party purchase transactions	This article covers how to handle cases where European Union (EU) third-party trade involves multiple EU countries. For example, when you receive a purchase invoice from a customer in one EU country/region and you send the products to another without entering the country of residence.
Managing GST Rate changes	This article describes how you can use the GST rate change feature to change GST rates based on local legislation.
Validate Exemption Certification numbers	This article explains how to validate exemption certification numbers for your contacts, customers, and vendors based on the EU VIES GST Number Validation service.
Multiple Exemption certification numbers	This article describes how to set up multiple exemption certification numbers (as an alternative GST rate) for customers who operate in different countries/regions.

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