Articles in "VAT"

At present, only VAT registered businesses with a taxable turnover greater than £85,000 are required to register for Making Tax Digital (MTD) and submit their returns through compatible software.

Whilst delivering the summer statement in Parliament on 8 July 2020, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, presented his ‘Plan for Jobs’ worth up to £30 billion to help Britain bounce back from the Coronavirus outbreak.

A temporary VAT zero rate will apply to all supplies of PPE which are made between 1 May and 31 October 2020.

The CJEU has considered a VAT case concerning the recovery of overhead VAT costs for a partially exempt business who supplied goods by way of hire purchase (the taxable supply) and the supply of credit (the exempt supply).

If your VAT-registered business provides construction services to another business you will no longer need to charge them VAT.

The Chancellor has announced that VAT for the period 20 March 2020 to 30 June 2020 will not need to be paid during this quarter.

A recent Upper Tier Tribunal case has resulted in digital newspapers being judged the same as hard copy printed newspapers and therefore zero rated. Prior to the case, digital publications were seen by HMRC as standard rated.

From 1 January 2020, the European Commission are introducing a number of ‘quick fixes’ aiming to simplify and harmonise EU VAT rules regarding intra-EU supplies of goods.