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Read an Altinn message about VAT before you submit anything

Use ChatGPT to read an Altinn message about VAT and make a reconciliation list against the accounts. You submit it yourself, with your own figures.

Tool
ChatGPT
Category
Public services
Difficulty
Moderate
Published

Have the documents ready, and read the answer critically before you use it.

This is a way of working from the editors, not advice from Skatteetaten, NAV, Altinn or an accountant. Check figures, deadlines and decisions against the original.

How to do it

  1. 1

    Copy the message from Altinn. Remove your national identity number, the organisation number if you do not want to share it, and customer names.

  2. 2

    Note the figures from the accounts for the period beside it: turnover, output VAT and input VAT, as they appear in the report.

  3. 3

    Ask the assistant to explain what the message asks you to do, in everyday words, and which VAT-return fields your figures usually belong in.

  4. 4

    Ask for a reconciliation list: which figure should match which report. Where a rate or a line cannot be decided from what you pasted, it should say so, not guess.

  5. 5

    Go back to Altinn and fill in the form yourself. If something does not match, stop and ask an accountant or Skatteetaten.

Example prompt

Example prompt

I have a message in Altinn about Norwegian VAT. I want to check the VAT return before I submit it. Here is the message and the figures from the accounts, without customer names:

[Paste the message]

[Paste the figures]

Explain what the message asks me to do, and which fields the figures usually belong in. Make a reconciliation list. Do not calculate a new amount if you have to guess a rate or a line. Write «check with an accountant or Skatteetaten» where you are unsure.

Source

Agentguiden editors

The editors wrote this example. It is not based on an external article, and we have not invented quotes or figures.

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