> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.ai2fin.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# BAS, GST and VAT returns — catch up and prepare

> Prepare your BAS, GST or VAT return in 2Fin: list every overdue period from your registration date, fill them all at once, answer purchases once per payee, and open any figure to the transactions behind it.

2Fin prepares your activity statements from the transactions you already have — a BAS in Australia, a GST return in New Zealand, a VAT return in the UK, a GST/HST return in Canada, and more. You check each one, then you or your registered agent lodge it with the tax office.

> [!NOTE]
>
> Activity statements are on **ELITE+** and **AUTO+**, in the web and desktop apps. Nothing is sent to a tax office from 2Fin.

## Catch up on overdue periods

**1. Open Tax Filing**

Go to **4. Reports & Automation → Activity Statement**. If you have not told 2Fin yet, it asks whether your business is registered for GST or VAT.

**2. Enter your registration date**

Fin lists every period since that date with its due date and status: **Not started**, **Draft**, **Ready to lodge** or **Lodged**.

**3. Fill all periods**

Press **Fill all periods** to save a draft for every period you owe. Progress shows as it goes. Each draft still waits for your review.

**4. Review, lodge, mark as lodged**

Open each draft, check it, lodge it with your tax office, then press **Mark as lodged**.

> [!TIP]
>
> After a bank import, the **Done** step offers **Prepare my BAS**, which opens the same list.

![The purchases review: one answer per payee across every period](https://mintcdn.com/ai2fin/chVoLw4tztnwrMjl/images/screens/bas-purchases-review-1280.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=chVoLw4tztnwrMjl\&q=85\&s=2c2f924db4d2898c9b1f5188ce5bde50)

The purchases review: one answer per payee across every period. Example figures from test books.

## The purchases review

Purchases are grouped **by payee across every period**, so one answer covers that supplier everywhere.

| Answer | What it does |
| - | - |
| **All business** | Every purchase from this payee is a business cost with its GST/VAT credit. |
| **Part business** | Set the business share. |
| **Private** | Left out of the statement. |
| **Split this payee** | Split by amount, by a word in the description, by weekday, or by picking rows. |
| **No tax invoice** | Keeps the cost but holds back the GST/VAT credit until you have the invoice. |
| **Skip for now** | Leaves the payee waiting. |

Fin shows a guess for each payee with **how sure it is** and **why**. A guess is never applied on its own: you tap **Use guess**, or **Accept the confident guesses** for those at least 80% sure. Every answer can be undone.

## Open any figure

Click any figure on a statement — or a main line of the year-end return — to see the transactions inside it. Change a row there, then **copy** or **export** the list for your agent.

## Country notes

> [accordion] Australia — BAS
>
> GST on sales (G1, 1A) and purchases (G10, G11, 1B), with capital purchases, the car limit and the tax-invoice rule applied. Salary and wages never reach G1 for a person with mixed income.

> [accordion] New Zealand — GST return
>
> Monthly, two-monthly or six-monthly, as Inland Revenue sets your filing period.

> [accordion] United Kingdom — VAT return
>
> Prepared for your VAT stagger's quarters. 2Fin is not connected to Making Tax Digital: submit through your own MTD software or agent.

> [accordion] Canada — GST/HST return
>
> Set your province. HST applies in Ontario, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.

> [accordion] United States
>
> The prepared statement is Form 941, the employer's quarterly payroll return. State sales tax stays with your sales-tax tool or accountant.

> [accordion] India
>
> GSTR-3B table 3.1(a), from sales only, filled as intra-state.

## More than one business

Add a second business under the same sign-in. Each transaction belongs to one business — assign by payee or row by row — and each business gets its own statements, profit and loss and exports.

## Related

* [Tax treatment](https://docs.ai2fin.com/features/tax-treatment.md)
* [Asset register](https://docs.ai2fin.com/features/asset-register.md)
* [Tax export](https://docs.ai2fin.com/features/tax-export.md)
* Product page: [ai2fin.com/features/bas-gst-vat-returns](https://ai2fin.com/features/bas-gst-vat-returns)


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