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Value Added Tax Act 1994

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[F1PART 6U.K.Supplementary provision

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F1Schs. 9ZD-9ZF inserted (10.6.2021 for specified purposes, 1.7.2021 for specified purposes, 1.3.2024 for specified purposes) by Finance Act 2021 (c. 26), s. 95(6)(a), Sch. 18 para. 6; S.I. 2021/770, regs. 3, 4 (with regs. 5-7); S.I. 2024/130, regs. 3, 4

Registration under this ActU.K.

34(1)Notwithstanding any provision in this Act to the contrary F2..., a participant in a special scheme is not required to be registered under this Act by virtue of making qualifying supplies of goods.U.K.

(2)Where a participant in a special scheme (“the scheme participant”) makes relevant supplies, it is to be assumed for all purposes of this Act relating to the determination of—

(a)whether or not VAT is chargeable under this Act on those supplies,

(b)how much VAT is chargeable under this Act on those supplies, and

(c)any other matter that the Commissioners may specify by regulations,

that the scheme participant is registered under this Act.

(3)[F3A supply made by a participant in a special scheme is a “relevant supply” if—]

(a)the value of the [F4supply] must be accounted for in a special scheme return, and

(b)the [F5supply is] treated as made in the United Kingdom.

(4)References in this Schedule to a person being registered under this Act do not include a reference to that person being registered under the IOSS scheme.

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De-registrationU.K.

35U.K.Where a person (“P”) who is registered under Schedule 1 or 1A solely by virtue of the fact that P makes or intends to make qualifying supplies of goods satisfies the Commissioners that P intends to apply for—

(a)registration under this Schedule, or

(b)identification under any provision of the law of a member State which implements Section 4 of Chapter 6 of Title XII of the VAT Directive,

the Commissioners may, if P so requests, cancel P's registration under Schedule 1 or, as the case may be, 1A with effect from the day on which the request is made or from such later date as may be agreed between P and the Commissioners.

Scheme participants who are also registered under this ActU.K.

36(1)A person who—U.K.

(a)is a participant in a special scheme, and

(b)is also registered, or required to be registered, under this Act,

is not required to discharge any obligation placed on the person as a taxable person, so far as the obligation relates to relevant supplies unless the obligation is an input tax obligation.

(2)The reference in sub-paragraph (1) to an obligation placed on the person as a taxable person is to an obligation—

(a)to which the person is subject under or by virtue of this Act, and

(b)to which the person would not be subject if the person were neither registered nor required to be registered under this Act.

(3)A supply made by a participant in a special scheme is a “relevant supply” if—

(a)the value of the supply must be accounted for in a return required to be made by the participant under the special scheme, and

(b)the supply is treated as made in the United Kingdom.

(4)In section 25(2) (deduction of input tax from output tax by a taxable person) the reference to output tax that is due from the taxable person does not include any VAT that the taxable person is liable under a special scheme to pay to the tax authorities for the administering member State.

(5)In this paragraph, “input tax obligation” means an obligation imposed on a taxable person relating to a claim to deduct under section 25(2) or to the payment of a VAT credit.

[F6No VAT chargeable on supplies by special scheme participants not registered for VAT]U.K.

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F736A.U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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No import VAT chargeable on qualifying supplies of goodsU.K.

37[F8(1)]No charge to VAT occurs on the importation of goods into the United Kingdom as a result of their entry into Northern Ireland F9... where—U.K.

(a)that importation F10... is in the course of a supply of those goods which is a qualifying supply of goods, and

(b)the person making the supply is [F11a participant in a special scheme].

[F12(2)The Commissioners may by means of a notice published by them make provision about the procedures that must be followed or the conditions that must be complied with to satisfy them that an importation F13... falls within sub-paragraph (1).]

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Time and place of supply of goodsU.K.

38(1)Sub-paragraphs (3) and (4) apply (instead of sections 6 and 7) for the purposes of determining when and where a supply of goods within sub-paragraph (2) takes place.U.K.

(2)A supply of goods is within this sub-paragraph where—

(a)the supply of those goods is a qualifying supply of goods,

(b)the supply is not facilitated by an online marketplace,

(c)the person making the supply is [F14a participant in a special scheme], and

(d)the goods are supplied to a person in Northern Ireland or a member State.

(3)The supply of goods is to be treated as taking place at the time when payment for the goods has been accepted, within the meaning of Article 61b of the Implementing Regulation.

(4)The goods are to be treated as supplied—

(a)in the case of goods supplied to a person in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom;

(b)in the case of goods supplied to a person in a member State, in that member State.

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Place of supply of goods: supplies facilitated by online marketplacesU.K.

39F15(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .U.K.

F16(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3)Sub-paragraph (4) applies (instead of section 7) to a supply of goods deemed to have taken place by section 5B(2)(a) where the operator of the online marketplace that facilitated the supply of goods from P to R (within the meaning of that section) is [F17a participant in a special scheme].

(4)The supply of goods is to be treated as taking place outside the United Kingdom.

(5)Sub-paragraph (6) applies (instead of section 7) to a supply of goods deemed to have taken place by section 5B(2)(b) where the operator of the online marketplace that facilitated the supply of goods from P to R (within the meaning of that section) is [F18a participant in a special scheme].

(6)The supply of goods is to be treated as taking place in the United Kingdom.

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VAT representativesU.K.

40U.K.Section 48(1ZA) (VAT representatives) does not permit the Commissioners to direct a participant in a special scheme to appoint a VAT representative.

Refund of UK VATU.K.

41(1)Part 21 of the Value Added Tax Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/2518) has effect in relation to a [F19participant in a special scheme] as it applies to a trader (within the meaning of those Regulations) subject to the following modifications.U.K.

(2)Regulation 186 (repayments of VAT) has effect as if after “imported by him into the United Kingdom” there were inserted “ by virtue of their entry into Northern Ireland ”.

(3)That Part has effect as if regulations 187, 188(1) and 188(2)(b) were omitted (VAT representatives and persons to whom Part 21 applies).]

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