How do I start tracking and paying what we owe HMRC?

1) Open Accounts → HMRC Dues (/accounts/hmrc-dues), Settings tab: set which returns each company has (VAT cadence and stagger, CIS, PAYE, corporation tax year end), HMRC's bank details, and the deadline reminders. The paying bank per company is set on Settings → Bank files & paying accounts. 2) Press Update — it pulls payroll and CIS charges, the new tax month, the filing calendar, Xero's balance sheets and bank lines, and the HMRC payments, in that order. 3) Upload filed returns (VAT returns, CIS300s, CT600s already filed with HMRC) so Saral knows what was filed. 4) Read Position: Owed now, Refunds due, Per the returns filed, Not filed yet. 5) On Returns, walk each period through Check, File (record the filing made elsewhere), Pay and Match. 6) On Payments, pick the filed liabilities, set the date, create one run per tax, download the bank file per paying bank. A line turns Paid only when the bank payment reaches Xero. Saral never prepares or files a return.