Today: Ireland VAT 3 Due for the July Return

Today — 19 August 2026 — is the statutory date on Revenue’s Calendar of key dates for tax professionals for monthly VAT 3 return and payment (if due) for July 2026, together with the Return of Trading Details where the VAT accounting period ends in July. Annual VAT 3 for the August–July cycle is on the same date where that annual period ends in July.

Revenue’s VAT guidance is clear: you must file and pay by the 19th day of the month following the end of each taxable period through ROS. For ROS customers who both file and pay online, the time limit commonly extends to the 23rd — confirm your own ROS profile. Filing the return analysis still belongs today; do not treat any payment extension as permission to delay the VAT workpapers.

What to file before close of business

Submit the July VAT 3 with T1/T2 figures reconciled to sales and purchase invoices, bank and card feeds, credit notes, and reverse-charge lines. Hospitality and catering traders still on the temporary 9% rate should confirm July lines that straddled any rate change before they finalise.

Pull the Return of Trading Details where your VAT accounting period ends in July — it shares today’s date with the VAT 3 for those traders. Leaving RTD until after payment day creates a second ROS rush in the same week as RCT and CT preliminary tax for September accounting periods.

ROS payment window and what comes next

Where your ROS profile qualifies for the electronic payment extension, diary VAT cash against 23 August while still filing the return analysis today. Confirm Direct Debit mandates and ROS authorisations so a bank cut-off does not turn a timely return into a late payment.

Bi-monthly filers on the July–August period are not filing a July-only VAT 3 today — their next bi-monthly return follows Revenue’s September calendar. Confirm your authorised frequency in ROS before treating 19 August as your due date.

Action checklist for 19 August

File July VAT 3 (and RTD where due) on ROS before end of 19 August 2026.

Confirm whether your profile unlocks the 23 August file-and-pay extension for the VAT remittance.

Sequence PAYE payment (where the ROS extension still applies), July RCT, and Corporation Tax windows due by 23 August as separate named tasks for the rest of the week.

Estimate dual-market rates on the free VAT calculator if you also invoice UK customers, then finish the ROS pack with your adviser.

How FinnAccountings helps with VAT 3 prep

FinnAccountings helps Ireland and UK traders prepare VAT and bookkeeping packs with Chartered Accountant insight before you or your Chartered Accountant (Ireland) or ICAEW/ACCA adviser files. We draft review-ready VAT workpapers — we do not file VAT 3 on ROS for you.

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Related reading

Use yesterday’s one-day VAT 3 briefing for the fuller July reconciliation narrative.

Ireland VAT 3: one day to 19 August →

Hospitality traders should keep the 9% catering reconciliation note beside the July pack.

Restaurant/catering 9% VAT July VAT 3 →

After VAT 3 clears, lock PAYE payment, RCT, and CT preliminary tax for 23 August.

Ireland PAYE/RCT/CT four days to 23 August →

Use the after-VAT-3 ROS cash checklist to sequence the rest of the week.

After VAT 3: ROS cash checklist to 23 August →

IOSS registrants still have twelve days to the 31 August July return.

Ireland IOSS: twelve days to 31 August →