See the Tax Timeline in your calendar

This article explains how to synchronise the FreeAgent Tax Timeline with your Google, Outlook or iCal calendar.

The Tax Timeline panel on the Overview screen is a calendar overview of the important tax dates and payments for you and your business, so you’ll know how much to set aside for tax bills. You can customise which items and amounts are displayed and export the details of your tax deadlines into your Google, Outlook or iCal calendar by following these steps.

Please note:

  • You need level 7 access or above in FreeAgent to see the Tax Timeline.
     
  • You can choose how often to refresh iCal feeds but other feeds may take 24 hours or more to refresh.
     
  • Personal Income Tax events such as Income Tax submissions and payments will not be exported to your calendar, but you can still see them in your Tax Timeline. 

1. Enable the calendar feed

Navigate to the drop-down menu under your business name and select ‘Connections & Add-ons’.

Connections and add-ons option highlighted within drop-down menu below the business name.

Select 'Get started' in the 'Calendar feeds' section.

Get started button highlighted in calendar feeds section

Then select 'Enable calendar feeds'.

Enable calendar feeds button highlighted

A message will confirm that calendar feeds have been enabled on your FreeAgent account.

Confirmation calendar feeds have been enabled

2. Download the Tax Timeline

Select ‘Copy Link’ next to the 'Tax Timeline' link.

Copy link highlighted next to Tax Timeline

3. Link the Tax Timeline to your calendar

Linking your Tax Timeline to your Google, Outlook or iCal calendar will import your upcoming tax deadlines into your calendar. As new deadlines come up, your calendar will be automatically updated with the details.

Linking to a Google calendar

  • Open your Google calendar
  • Select the '+' button beside ‘Other Calendars’, then select 'Create new calendar' from the drop-down menu
    Create new calendar option highlighted
  • Select ‘From URL’ and paste the Tax Timeline link address into the text box
  • To complete the process, select ‘Add calendar’ 

Linking to an iCal calendar

  • Open your iCal calendar
  • Navigate to ‘File’
  • Select ‘New Calendar Subscription’ from the drop-down menu
    New Calendar Subscription highlighted
  • Paste the Tax Timeline link address into the text box
  • To complete the process, select ‘Subscribe’

Linking to an Outlook calendar

  • Open your Outlook calendar and on the 'Home' tab, select 'Add Calendar' > 'From Internet'
  • Paste the URL from your internet calendar and select 'OK'.
  • Outlook will ask if you would like to add this calendar and subscribe to updates. Select 'Yes'

How the Tax Timeline works

The items on the Tax Timeline will automatically update when something has been filed, marked as filed or paid off. You can also complete an item directly from the Tax Timeline. Find out more about the Tax Timeline.

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