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Transmit your VAT return from Nori

Nori keeps the VAT return up to date from the period's bookings. Once the period is closed, you transmit it with one click.

Updated 2 Nov 2026

The VAT return sits on the accounting overview, right below the “To do” list. It shows what the period owes – and what that is made of: output tax minus input tax is the VAT payable (or a VAT credit).

Provisional until the period is closed

While the period is open, the figures are marked “provisional – this period's bookings as they stand”. Every new invoice or matched receipt changes them straight away. Under output tax and input tax you see how many revenue and expense bookings they come from.

If Nori finds bookings on no return field – an OSS invoice at a rate the chart of accounts has no code for, for example – a notice lists them one by one. Those amounts are part of no total until you correct them.

How to transmit the VAT return

  1. 1 Close the period
    Close the period first – see [Close a period](/en/docs/close-accounting-period). Transmitting freezes the figures.
  2. 2 Transmit
    On the overview, click “Transmit” in the top right. Nori shows you the amount and the period once more to confirm.
  3. 3 Check the confirmation
    After the transmission the period turns green in the strip. If the authority refuses the return, “Refused transmission” appears with the reason – “Recompute” drafts the corrected return.

What the transmission needs

If “Transmit” is greyed out, something is still missing – the hint on the button tells you what. Under Settings → Company → Finance → Accounting, add a VAT registration with your tax number and – for Austria – the credentials of your FinanzOnline web service user. In Germany Nori transmits via ELSTER; “Check plausibility” has ERiC check the return first without transmitting anything.

Does your accountant file the VAT return? Then record it with “Record filing” or “Mark filed elsewhere” so the period counts as filed in Nori.

Tax account (Austria)

With FinanzOnline credentials on file, the overview also shows your tax account: the balance according to the latest account statement (owed or in credit), deadlines and the documents from your Databox, such as assessments and processing protocols.

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