Making Tax Digital (MTD)
HMRC has stated that from October this year it is removing the functionality to copy across existing VAT clients to agent services account (ASA).
When using ASA, agents can copy over existing client relationships for VAT and Income Tax Self Assessment (ITSA) customers from their old Government Gateway ID. HMRC will be removing this functionality to copy across existing VAT clients to ASA . It is important to ensure that existing VAT clients are copied across to ASA before this date.
Once this functionality is removed VAT clients can be authorised using the digital handshake authorisation route available in your ASA.
The copy functionality will remain for ITSA customers.