What is the HMRC Dues page for?

What every company in the group owes HMRC today — VAT, PAYE and CIS, corporation tax — what is due to be filed next, and what to pay. Position is the headline per the returns filed; Reconcile checks Xero against Saral against HMRC per company and tax; Returns walks each period through Check, File and Pay; Payments turns filed liabilities into payment runs and bank files. Saral never prepares or files a return — the return is done in Xero, the payroll app or the accountant's software, and this page records that it was, tracks the liability and pays it. You enter: The filed returns themselves, uploaded (VAT returns, CIS300s, CT600s already filed with HMRC — one file, many, or a folder), each stored under its company and period and marked as filed; On Returns: the period's figures and filing date when you record a filing made elsewhere, and the drawer's decisions at each step; On Payments: which filed liabilities go in a run, the payment date, the run's approval where your account requires a second person, and any time-to-pay plan; On Settings: the pre-submission checks, which returns each company files, the CIS journal, interest rates, reconciliation matching, Government Gateway logins and the HMRC agent connection. Saral fills: Owed now (filed, not paid), refunds due, the position per the returns filed, and what is building up in Xero for returns not filed yet — with the Xero difference as a sub-line, never as the headline; PAYE and CIS charges from the payroll runs and the paid worker invoices, the filing calendar each company owes, Xero's balance sheets and bank lines, and the payments to HMRC rolled into the ledger — all pulled by one Update, run by itself when the last update is over an hour old; The Reconcile grid: Xero, Saral and HMRC side by side per company and tax as at a day, the reason for each difference, and the journals that would clear them; A figure it could not read says unknown, with the reason — never £0.00. It produces: Payment runs per tax with a bank file per paying bank, and a Paid stamp on each line once the bank line reaches Xero; Reconciling journals to Xero, for the whole group in one batch, and the CIS journal; A brief for email of the group's position, and the returns archive with each filing stored under its company and period. Where the settings live: The Settings tab of this page owns HMRC's own settings: HMRC's bank details, the pre-submission checks, partial exemption, which returns each company files, the CIS journal, interest rates, how a Saral payment is matched to a Xero bank payment, Government Gateway logins and the HMRC agent connection. Two facts are owned elsewhere and shown here read-only with a link: the paying bank per company (Settings → Bank files & paying accounts) and whether a run needs a second person's approval (Settings → Payments). The PAYE and CIS charges come from Payroll and from HR's paid CIS invoices; payroll itself runs in your payroll app.