Afterwards you will be able toKnow where the Tax payable balance came from, why it matches the month’s invoices, and what you still have to bring yourself before you file.
Teaching simulation
This is a teaching demo running in your browser on sample data. It sends no real invoices, messages or orders.A month’s VAT in the books
Where the figure came from, why it matches the invoices, and what it does not give you
Double entry. Every sale and every invoice reaches the books, and every entry balances.
Revenue
62,300.00
Expenses
51,920.00
Net profit
10,380.00
Trial balance
Balanced
| Code | Account | Type | Debit | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1010 | Cash | Asset | 18,430.00 | — |
| 1020 | Bank | Asset | 96,210.00 | — |
| 1100 | Accounts receivable | Asset | 41,760.00 | — |
| 1200 | Inventory | Asset | 77,225.00 | — |
| 2010 | Accounts payable | Liability | — | 63,900.00 |
| 2100 | Tax payable | Liability | — | 9,345.00 |
| 3010 | Capital | Equity | — | 150,000.00 |
| 4010 | Sales | Revenue | — | 62,300.00 |
| 5010 | Cost of sales | Expense | 38,920.00 | — |
| 5400 | General expenses | Expense | 13,000.00 | — |
| Total | 285,545.00 | 285,545.00 |
This is a teaching demo running in your browser on sample data. It sends no real invoices, messages or orders.
October 2026: sales of 62,300 and tax payable of 9,345. The lesson traces the figure from the trial balance back to the documents that produced it, and says plainly what you have to bring from outside the program.
Every step in the words the walkthrough narrates — to read without playing anything, or to follow while you do it on your own screen.
October 2026: sales of 62,300 and tax payable of 9,345. The lesson traces the figure from the trial balance back to the documents that produced it, and says plainly what you have to bring from outside the program.
The first thing to say: JooDax has no VAT-return screen and files nothing on your behalf. What it has is an account where the tax on your sales collects, and this lesson is about reading it.
Account 2100, Tax payable, with a credit balance of 9,345. A credit because it is a liability and not income: this is money you collected on the authority’s behalf and are holding, so it sits with payables and not with sales.
Sales two rows up read 62,300, and 15% of that is exactly 9,345. It matches here because every sale in the month was standard-rated and nothing has been paid over yet — one zero-rated or exempt line and the multiplication would stop working, which is why the ledger is the source and not the arithmetic.
And before you build on the figure: the trial balance balances. Debits equal credits, and a difference would be a data fault rather than an accounting one — shown plainly rather than hidden.
In the chart of accounts, 2100 carries a “system” tag. The automatic posting rules look it up by code rather than by name, so it cannot be deleted or re-coded out from under the invoices — which is what guarantees every new document lands in the same account.
The balance is not a figure anybody types. It is the sum of lines in entries, and every line has a document behind it. We look at three of them.
An invoice entry: receivables 5,520 debit, sales 4,800 credit, tax payable 720 credit. The 720 is the sum of the tax already worked out on each line, not a percentage re-applied to the total — which is why the account agrees with the invoices to the halala.
And a till sale adds to the same account: 27 riyals on a sale of 180. Two different apps, one account — the tax is not collected in two places and reconciled later; it arrives in one place as it is recorded.
And here is the limit you must know: the goods-received entry records inventory against payables at cost, with no tax line at all. JooDax does not separate purchase tax into an account of its own, so the 9,345 is output tax and nothing else.
To prepare the return, export the journal. The file has a row per journal line, so filtering the account code on 2100 gives you the 9,345 broken down document by document — which is what you will be asked for in any review.
So what does the business owe? 9,345 of output tax, less the input tax you establish from your own purchase invoices outside the program. JooDax gives you the first half exactly and with its evidence, and the purchase records for the second — it fills in no form and submits nothing.
In short: one figure you can trust because you can trace it to its documents, and half a return still on you. Knowing which half you have is worth more than a screen that claims both.