"the company didn't have time to waste sourcing and installing a traditional accounting application... "
         Stephen Drew - Millifoods Limited "Now, I'm doing a job I wouldn't be able to do without Liberty, from wherever I happen to be."
         Heidi Hayes - Body Active Chiropractic Clinics "There are other systems out there,' he says, 'but there aren't any truly viable offerings that are equivalent"
         Barnaby Scott - Waywood Furniture "When I log into Liberty it immediately lets me know which client accounts are due or coming up for payment"
         Mary Palmer - Mary Palmer Consulting "Our accountant is happy with it, and the non-accountants have found it very easy to use too."
         Gregory Bricusse - 020 London Directory "They can't help you enough, so the support is fantastic"
         Tracy Purdon - London 1st Accounting "I don't have to worry about making security backups or updating the software."
         David Ryder, Treasurer - St Marks Church, Sheffield "....and Liberty was the only one with integrated payroll"
         Liam Logan - Wollaton Building Limited "If I want to get up and do my accounts at six then go for a run at nine, I can do that. Why should I commute just to get access to information...?"
         Graham Jackson - Jackson Maunders "The real beauty of an online system is that it can be tailored to fit the client"
         Ray Backler - Capsa Consultants "....who then had to re-key everything into the Revenue online portal.... automating the process saves up to 10 minutes for each return"
         David Hughes - Accountants4Contractors "Liberty Accounts looks like a package that has been thought through and developed by real users"
         Nigel Harris - AccountingWeb May 2006 "Liberty Accounts is so user friendly I don't feel intimidated..."
         Sarah McCaig - MJM Plumbing and Heating Ltd "It is possible for the firm and its clients to review and update the same financial picture, even though they're at different locations"
         Tracy Purdon - London 1st Accounting "Every day, the software provides me with a snapshot of exactly where the business is..."
         Stephen Drew - Millifoods Limited "With Liberty, Wollaton is getting an enterprise system without the big costs"
         Liam Logan - Wollaton Building Limited "We no longer have to worry about incompatible version numbers, or being locked out of the system because we don't have the latest upgrade"
         Tracy Purdon - London 1st Accounting "Because we're a charity, we pay a reduced rate... "
         David Ryder, Treasurer - St Marks Church, Sheffield "We don't have to worry about back-ups," says Jackson, "and we have very robust recovery in the event of a computer failure."
         Graham Jackson - Jackson Maunders "020 was set up so that we could all work from anywhere, and we wanted the same from our accounting system..."
         Gregory Bricusse - 020 London Directory "Liberty Accounts has revolutionised my working day..."
         Sarah McCaig - MJM Plumbing and Heating Ltd "We can make changes to our system and get them out there really quickly because we don't have to wait for the next big upgrade"
         Alan Wright - Liberty Accounts "Your customer service is probably the best I've experienced from anyone - ever..."
         Alexander Greene - Greene & Greene Wines
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Online Filing - Background Briefing

The Carter Review

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In July 2005, the Government asked Lord Carter to advise on measures to increase the use of HMRC's key online services, in order to ensure sustainable and efficient service delivery for taxpayers, while continuing to support compliance.

22nd March 2006 saw the publication of Lord Carter of Coles' Review of HMRC Online Services, which concludes that well-designed online services can bring benefits to taxpayers and the Government. His report sets an aspirational goal for HMRC: to aim for universal electronic delivery of tax returns from businesses by 2012.

The full list of Lord Carter's wide-ranging recommendations, that HMRC will now be taking forward, are in his report. The key recommendations are that, subject to the right services being in place:

Mandation

Mandation of online filing means that by 2012 most businesses will have to file the majority of returns online.

HMRC offers facilities for filing returns online through their website, but this involves transposing figures into the online forms by hand. Many software vendors are starting to offer online filing facilities direct from the software. Payroll software suppliers have been leading the way with many, including Liberty Accounts, supporting online filing since 2004/05. More recently Liberty Accounts added online filing of VAT returns and was the first, and currently only, supplier in the UK to have an HMRC recognised online VAT filing facility.

Online filing functionality will increasingly be a key feature of accounting and payroll software. Many suppliers are cynically drip-feeding online filing features into their products to force users to pay for upgrades. At Liberty Accounts we are committed to providing our customers with a product that helps them comply with online filing requirements. All users of Liberty Accounts will have access to online filing features as they are developed.