Guidance

EC Sales Lists online: EC Sales List

Find technical resources for software developers working with the EC Sales List online service.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Published: 1 January 2014
• Last updated: 4 January 2022
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  1. 4 January 2022

     VAT returns can no longer be submitted using Extensible Markup Language (XML).

  2. 7 January 2021

     ECSL TXE update for NIP (information for TPVS2) has been added.

  3. 16 October 2020

     ECSL schema version 1.2 has been added.

  4. 29 September 2020

     ECSL TXE version 1.2 for call off stocks (information for TPVS2) and ECSL request valid sample version 1.2 has been added.

  5. 19 November 2019

     The ECSL request valid sample version 1.1 has been added.

  6. 1 January 2014

     First published.

Documents

ECSL TXE update for NIP (information for TPVS2)

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ECSL TXE version 1.2 for call off stocks (information for TPVS2)

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ECSL request valid sample version 1.2

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ECSL technical interface specification version 2.3

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ECSL schema version 1.2

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ECSL test cases version 2.0

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Use these technical resources if you are a software developer wanting to give customers a direct ‘machine-to-machine’ channel for the submission of EC Sales Lists.