Accountants have back dated VAT effective registration date

[AMH]

On the plus side - at least your trading year and VAT returns coincide. Mine is a month out, and before I moved to InTouch it was a pain at the end of the year because the accountant had all the paperwork, including the invoices that I needed to use for calculating the next VAT return.

you can move your trading year easily enough
https://www.gov.uk/change-your-companys-year-end

[TheFaQQer]

Why?

Why did the accountant have the paperwork, why was it done this way, or why wasn't the accountant doing the VAT return for me?

[John8589]

The accountant should have given you the paperwork back straight away. An accountant cannot hold a lien over company records.