RTD ARTD - How to complete the ARTD report on ROS using the SortMyBooks ARTD Report

Completion of ARTD Report

At the end of every fiscal year Revenue will require completion online of the ARTD, “Annual Return of Trading Detail” report.  To get information for this report on Sort My Books go to Reports/VAT Reports/ARTD Report.  Check the “Criteria By” and tick on either Date Range or VAT Period, and complete the “Select Range” by entering either your Accounting Period or VAT Periods, depending on your option of Date Range or VAT Period, as shown below:

Go to Revenue Online (ROS), and click on “Complete a Form Online”, Select “VAT” as the Tax Type, and “RTD” as the Report type, then click on File Return.  This will bring you to the ARTD screen.  The first question ROS will ask you to “Select a Period”, which are shown in years:

Select the year for which you are reporting, and click Continue.

The ROS ARTD report corresponds directly to the Sort My Books ARTD Report.  ROS will initially ask the question of “Have you made supplies of Goods and/or Services? Tick “yes” or “no”. Check the Sort My Books ARTD form, and if it includes figures for this first column, enter these figures per VAT percentage listed, 23%, 13.5% , Exempt etc 

The Sort My Book ARTD form has the title of each column as well as a code.  Below is the heading for the Sort My Books ARTD form that includes the column title as well as a code:  c1, c2, c3 and c4:

Below shows the ROS ARTD form that corresponds to the Sort My Books ARTD form:

After entering the amounts from the Sort My Books ARTD Form onto the ROS ARTD form, check the total entered as compared with the figure of that column on the Sort My Books ARTD form.  These figures should match.

When you’ve used the Sort My Books form details to complete the ROS ARTD form online for all four columns, and checked each column total to be sure it matches that column total on the Sort My Books form, click “Continue”.  You will be brought to the ROS signature page.  Complete the fields as you do for all ROS reports, and your VAT ARTD report will be successfully completed.