18 October 2024| CATEGORIES: Customs, EU VAT, Excise, General Court, Preliminary rulings| TAGS: CJEU, Customs, EU, General Court, VAT
Responsibility for preliminary rulings in six specific areas, including VAT and customs, has transferred to the General Court of the European Union. A new Chamber has been created to specialise in preliminary rulings on questions referred in the relevant areas.
21 August 2024| CATEGORIES: VAT legislation, VAT OSS| TAGS: HMRC, OSS, VAT
HMRC has updated the VAT One Stop Shop (OSS) and Import One Stop Shop (IOSS) section in its Manual on VAT Tertiary Legislation. The update includes a new section to let OSS registered businesses know how and when to notify HMRC if they no longer make eligible supplies under the scheme.
10 April 2024| CATEGORIES: HMRC guidance, Non-established taxable persons, UK, VAT registration| TAGS: HMRC, NETP, VAT, VAT registration
HMRC have amended VAT registration information relating to non-established taxable persons (NETPs) in VAT Notice 700/1. An NETP is any person who does not have a UK establishment. The rules regarding VAT registration can be complex, especially for overseas sellers of goods via an online marketplace.
13 June 2023| CATEGORIES: digital newspapers, HMRC, Supreme Court, VAT rates| TAGS: HMRC, VAT
HMRC have published RCB 6 (2023) which provides an update on the VAT treatment of digital publications following the Supreme Court judgment in the News Corp UK & Ireland Ltd case. HMRC is writing to organisations that submitted claims for overpaid VAT based on the earlier Upper Tribunal decision to establish whether they intended to proceed with their appeals given the Supreme Court decision.
24 May 2023| CATEGORIES: e-Commerce, VAT, VAT registration| TAGS: digital services, e-commerce, ESS, GST, VAT
The trend for businesses to provide services digitally or online has accelerated significantly in recent years, particularly following the COVID pandemic. The Value Added Tax (VAT) and Goods and Sales Tax (GST) compliance obligations of businesses providing digital or electronically supplied services (ESS) are increasing. Tax authorities increasingly require overseas businesses to register for and charge local VAT/GST on their B2C supplies of ESS.
20 April 2023| CATEGORIES: Customs, Spring Budget 2023, VAT| TAGS: Customs, HMRC, Spring Budget 2023, VAT
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, presented the Spring Budget to the House of Commons on 15 March 2023. This article looks at the main points of interest from a VAT and Customs perspective. The full set of Spring Budget 2023 documents are available here.
3 March 2023| CATEGORIES: Brexit, Northern Ireland Protocol, The Windsor Framework| TAGS: Brexit, Customs, Northern Ireland, VAT
The UK Government has reached an agreement in principle with the EU, aimed at addressing post-Brexit problems with the Northern Ireland Protocol. The Windsor Framework, replaces the old Northern Ireland Protocol. It delivers free-flowing trade in goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland through a new green lane.
19 January 2022| CATEGORIES: Making Tax Digital| TAGS: Making Tax Digital, New HMRC rules, VAT
Making Tax Digital for VAT (MTDfV) will be extended to all VAT registered businesses with effect from 1 April 2022. HMRC recently issued a reminder for VAT registered businesses to take steps to prepare for MTDfV before it becomes mandatory.
7 October 2021| CATEGORIES: HMRC, Tax, Tax gap, VAT| TAGS: HMRC, Tax gap, VAT
The tax gap for the 2019/20 tax year is 5.3%, which represents £35 billion, according to statistics recently published by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). The total tax gap for Value Added Tax (VAT) is £12.3 billion.
23 September 2021| CATEGORIES: HMRC, Making Tax Digital| TAGS: Making Tax Digital, VAT, VAT News
An independent report commissioned by HMRC has been published on the impact of MTD for VAT on businesses.
