Common Errors in Filing VAT

By
Wondwosen Berhanu
MTO electronic tax team coordinator
19 April 2022
 1. Using dates of transactions
What ever your calendar of filing is, use dates in
the range of local calendar. For example if you
are filing for the period January 2022 – March
2022, do not use dates from Tir 1=jan 8.
use dates starting from jan 9, 2022.
Using dates before Jan 9, 2022 will result error
(dates Jan 1 to Jan 8 are not acceptable for the
period)
 2. Purchase item Description
• On a single receipt You can buy more than one
Item,
• The system also accepts more items but you
can not use same item description more than
once on same receipt no.
For example on FS00188209 you cant report
cement more than once
 3. Formula on the calculation
• In your CSV data file there should no formula left.
Remove the formula by using the paste special option.
Step 1 select the array of your data calculated using
formula

Step 2 Copy Your Data

Step 3 right click on the first you selected
Step 4 select paste special and value from the list
 4. Remove coma from the CSV sheet
• CSV means Comma Separated Values.
On uploading CSV file the computer reads any
comma as a beginning of new column.
If we use 123,456.22 on our data sheet, the
system takes 123 on one column and 456.22 to
other column. Which is totally resulting error.
Therefore convert all value data to general format
to avoid comma. And don’t use comma any
where in your CSV including descriptions.
 5. Use the revised purchase detail format

• Use the right format shown on

https://t.me/MTOtax_support/5951
Or
Date of Vat receipt
Types of Seller name (for purchase/Customs number/ Customs Unit of
purchase inported Declaration No. Declaration Measure (type total before
(1-5) TIN purchase only) Dispatched Date MRC Number Number Description ID 2-10) Quantity Unit Price vat vat gross value
5 0005677367 02/04/2022AAD0013772 00046693DSTV OTHER 1 2573.85 2573.85 386.0775 2959.928
5 0005677367 26/01/2022AAD0013741 00039595DSTV OTHER 1 2573.85 2573.85 386.0775 2959.928
3 0003185826 13/01/2022FGK0000821 00034931HOT SAUCE PCS 1 27.78 27.78 4.167 31.947
3 0003185826 13/01/2022FGK0000821 00034939HOT SAUCE PCS 7 27.78 194.46 29.169 223.629
5 0000030603 01/11/2022 1634508450Telephone OTHER 1 7418.55 7418.55 1112.783 8531.333
5 0000030603 01/11/2022 1634508161Telephone OTHER 1 19.19 19.19 2.8785 22.0685