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title: "Creating and Editing VAT-Audits"
source_url: https://support.lucanet.com/en/documentation/income-taxes/vat/master-data/create-and-edit-vat-audit-checks
language: en
last_updated: 2026-10-09
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# Creating and Editing VAT-Audits in Lucanet VAT
## Overview
In the **VAT-Audits** workspace in Lucanet VAT (Value Added Tax), you create the audits that VAT-Audit applies to the imported document data from the ERP system. To do so, you choose a predefined audit template, configure the parameters of the audit template, and activate the audit for the period and the company.
VAT-Audit only executes activated audits. The results flow into the evaluations of VAT-Audit.
## Navigation to the 'VAT-Audits' Workspace in VAT
The **VAT-Audits** workspace can be found under **VAT | Master data | VAT-Audits** and is displayed as follows, for example:
'VAT-Audits' workspace
## Creating an Audit in VAT
To create an audit in VAT, proceed as follows:
1. In the breadcrumb navigation, choose the period and the company for which you want to create the audit.
2. In the **VAT-Audits** workspace, click **Add**. The first page for creating an audit is displayed:
First page for creating an audit
3. In the **Audit** drop-down list, choose an audit template. In the **Description** area, VAT displays the description of the audit template. For an overview of all audit templates, see the section [Audit Templates in VAT-Audit](#audit-templates-in-vataudit).
4. If required, activate the **Create for all units** check box to create the audit for all companies of the period. If required, you deactivate the audit for individual companies later.
5. Click **Continue**. The second page for creating an audit is displayed:
Second page for creating an audit
6. Fill in the fields. For a description of the fields, see the following table.
7. In the **Parameter** area, configure the criteria by which VAT-Audit evaluates the documents. The available parameters depend on the audit template. For a description of the parameters, see the section [Parameters of the Audits in VAT-Audit](#parameters-of-the-audits-in-vataudit).
8. Click **Save**.
The following fields are available on the second page, regardless of the audit template:
| Field | Description |
|---------|---------|
| Name of the audit | Specifies the name of the audit under which VAT displays the audit in the table. The field is mandatory. |
| Description of the audit | Describes the audit. The description is for information purposes only. |
| Recommended course of action | Specifies a recommended course of action that serves as guidance when someone processes a finding of this audit. |
## Activating an Audit in VAT
VAT-Audit only executes activated audits. To activate an audit for the chosen period and company, activate the check box in the row of the audit in the **VAT-Audits** workspace and click **Save**.
## Editing an Audit in VAT
To edit an existing audit, click the audit in the **VAT-Audits** workspace. Adjust the fields and parameters and click **Save**.
## Audit Templates in VAT-Audit
The following audit templates are available in the **Audit** drop-down list:
| Audit template | Description |
|---------|---------|
| Comparison of the booked tax with the calculated tax of all documents | Finds documents for which the difference between the posted tax and the tax calculated from the base exceeds the specified tolerance. The audit requires that you have stored the tax codes of the company code in the master data. If required, you exclude document types and accountants, for example technical users. |
| Deviating booking currency | Finds documents in which a document currency other than the specified document currency was used for one or more tax codes. Optionally, you restrict the audit to account types. |
| Bookings with base amount and no tax, and vice versa | Finds documents for the specified tax codes for which a tax base amount without a tax amount or a tax amount without a tax base amount was posted. |
| Double booking | Finds documents in the audit period that have the same reference number. Optionally, you additionally require identical tax amounts, identical tax codes, or identical debtors and creditors. |
| Comparison of booking and posting date | Finds documents for which two dates are not in the specified relationship to each other, for example the posting date and the document date. |
| Postings where the tax type does not match the credit/debit indicator | Finds documents on expense or revenue accounts for which the tax type does not match the credit/debit indicator of the account. For this purpose, VAT-Audit uses the accounts that you have stored in the [Reconciliation accounts](https://support.lucanet.com/en/documentation/income-taxes/vat/master-data/create-and-edit-reconciliation-accounts.md) workspace. |
| Custom audit | Finds documents that match the parameters that you combine freely. |
| Custom random samples | Selects a sample from the documents that match the parameters, for example the documents with the highest amounts. |
| Sample: X trading partners with more than one taxcode used | Outputs the documents of a specified number of randomly chosen trading partners for which more than one tax code was used. If required, you exclude tax codes. |
## Parameters of the Audits in VAT-Audit
In the **Parameter** area, you configure the criteria by which VAT-Audit evaluates the documents. For parameters with several values, you add each value via **Add**. For many of these parameters, you use **Include/exclude values** in the three-dot menu (⋮) next to the parameter to specify whether VAT-Audit should include the specified values in the audit or exclude them.
### Overview of All Parameters in VAT-Audit
The following table describes all parameters that are available for the audits in VAT-Audit. For the parameters that are available for each audit template, see the section [Available Parameters per Audit Template in VAT-Audit](#available-parameters-per-audit-template-in-vataudit).
| Parameter | Description |
|---------|---------|
| Tax code | Restricts the audit to one or more tax codes. Enter each tax code as a character string with 2 to 20 characters, for example **A1**. |
| Tax code Type | Restricts the audit to one or more tax code forms with up to three characters, for example **MWS** or **VST**. |
| Account number | Restricts the audit to one or more account numbers with exactly 10 characters. For the **Postings where the tax type does not match the credit/debit indicator** audit template, you use **Include/exclude values** to specify whether VAT-Audit adds the accounts to the accounts from the master data or removes them from the accounts from the master data. |
| Account Types | Restricts the accounts from the master data to specific account types, for example to expense accounts. |
| Account type | Restricts the audit to one or more account types with one character, for example **K** for creditors or **D** for debtors. |
| Debit / credit indicator | Restricts the audit to debit or credit postings. |
| Document type | Restricts the audit to one or more document types with two characters. |
| Accountant | Restricts the audit to the documents of one or more users with up to 12 characters. As a rule, you exclude technical users here. |
| Currency | Specifies the document currency as a three-digit ISO 4217 code, for example **EUR** or **GBP**. |
| Tolerance limit (amount) | Defines the amount up to which VAT-Audit tolerates a difference between the posted tax and the calculated tax. |
| Tolerance limit (percent) | Defines the tolerance as a percentage for the difference between the posted tax and the calculated tax. If you specify both tolerance limits, VAT-Audit uses the lower value. |
| Date Comparison | Specifies which two dates VAT-Audit compares and in which relationship, for example whether the posting date is greater than the document date. The posting date, the document date, the entry date, and the VAT reporting date are available. |
| Only compare months | Specifies that VAT-Audit only compares the months instead of the exact days during the date comparison. |
| Audit period in months | Extends the audit by the specified number of previous months, up to a maximum of 99. |
| Equality of tax amounts required | Specifies that duplicate documents must have identical tax amounts. Even differences in the cent range then prevent VAT-Audit from detecting a double booking. |
| Equality of tax codes required | Specifies that duplicate documents must have identical tax codes. |
| Equality of debitor/creditor required | Specifies that duplicate documents must have the same debtor or creditor accounts. |
| Ignore offsetting entries | Excludes offsetting entries from the audit. |
| Type of trading partners | Specifies whether VAT-Audit checks debtors or creditors. |
| Number of random trading partners | Specifies the number of randomly chosen trading partners for which VAT-Audit outputs the documents. |
| Customer (Debtor), Supplier (Creditor) | Restricts the audit to individual customers or suppliers with up to 10 characters. |
| Company ID of trading partner | Restricts the audit to trading partners with a specific company ID. |
| Part of the company name | Restricts the audit to trading partners whose name contains the specified character string, for example a legal form. |
| Country code of the trading partners | Restricts the audit to trading partners from one or more countries. Enter the two-digit country code, for example **FR**. The value **EU** stands for all EU member states. |
| Country code of the VAT ID | Restricts the audit to documents whose VAT ID belongs to one or more countries. The value **EU** stands for all EU member states. |
| Purchasing document tax code | Restricts the audit to one or more tax codes of the related purchasing documents. |
| Tax type | Restricts the audit to a tax type with one character, for example **V** for input tax or **A** for output tax. |
| Only tax-relevant lines | Specifies that VAT-Audit only checks the tax-relevant lines of a document. |
| Number of highest documents | Specifies how many documents with the highest amounts VAT-Audit uses for the sample. |
| Number of random documents | Specifies how many documents VAT-Audit chooses randomly. If you additionally specify the **Number of highest documents**, VAT-Audit chooses the random documents from the highest documents. |
| Tax base amount greater than, Tax base amount less than | Restricts the audit to documents whose tax base amount is within the specified range. |
| Tax greater than, Tax less than | Restricts the audit to documents whose tax amount is within the specified range. |
| Sum amounts per tax code | Specifies that VAT-Audit sums the amounts of a document per tax code. |
| Include reversal | Specifies that VAT-Audit includes reversal documents in the audit, that is, the documents with which another document was reversed. |
| Include reversed documents | Specifies that VAT-Audit includes reversed documents in the audit, that is, the original documents that were reversed. |
### Available Parameters per Audit Template in VAT-Audit
The **Include reversal** and **Include reversed documents** parameters are available for all audit templates. The other parameters are available per audit template as follows. Mandatory parameters are marked with **Mandatory**:
| Audit template | Available parameters |
|---------|---------|
| Comparison of the booked tax with the calculated tax of all documents | - Tolerance limit (amount)
- Tolerance limit (percent)
- Document type
- Accountant
- Tax code |
| Deviating booking currency | - Tax code **Mandatory**
- Account type
- Currency **Mandatory** |
| Bookings with base amount and no tax, and vice versa | - Tax code **Mandatory** |
| Double booking | - Tax code
- Document type
- Equality of tax amounts required
- Equality of tax codes required
- Equality of debitor/creditor required
- Ignore offsetting entries
- Audit period in months |
| Comparison of booking and posting date | - Date Comparison **Mandatory**
- Only compare months
- Tax code |
| Postings where the tax type does not match the credit/debit indicator | - Account number
- Account Types
- Tax code Type
- Debit / credit indicator |
| Custom audit | - Tax code
- Tax code Type
- Country code of the trading partners
- Document type
- Country code of the VAT ID
- Type of trading partners
- Account number
- Company ID of trading partner
- Purchasing document tax code
- Part of the company name
- Only tax-relevant lines
- Supplier (Creditor)
- Customer (Debtor)
- Date Comparison
- Only compare months
- Account type
- Currency |
| Custom random samples | - Number of highest documents **Mandatory**
- Tax code
- Account number
- Country code of the trading partners
- Document type
- Country code of the VAT ID
- Tax base amount greater than
- Tax base amount less than
- Tax greater than
- Tax less than
- Tax type
- Number of random documents
- Type of trading partners
- Sum amounts per tax code
- Supplier (Creditor)
- Customer (Debtor)
- Part of the company name
- Accountant |
| Sample: X trading partners with more than one taxcode used | - Number of random trading partners **Mandatory**
- Type of trading partners **Mandatory**
- Tax code
- Audit period in months |
## Further Functions of the 'VAT-Audits' Workspace in VAT
In addition to the [general functions](https://support.lucanet.com/en/documentation/income-taxes/vat/user-interface-general-functions.md), the following functions are available in the **VAT-Audits** workspace in VAT:
| Function | Description |
|---------|---------|
| Import audit | Imports a previously exported audit from a file. The function is available via the three-dot menu (⋮) in the top right corner. |
| Export | Exports the configuration of an audit as a file, for example to import the audit in another environment. The function is available via the three-dot icon (⋮) in the row of the audit. |
| Delete | Deletes an audit after you confirm the deletion. The function is available via the trash can icon in the row of the audit. |