Part 1
3.Paragraph 1 inserts the new Schedule 3BA into the VAT Act 1994, which contains the provisions establishing the special accounting scheme for persons established in the Member States (MS) supplying BTE services to non-business customers belonging in other MSs, to be known as the Union scheme.
4.New Schedule 3BA Part 1 gives an overview and explains the meaning of scheme services.
5.New Schedule 3BA Part 2 provides for who may register in the UK to use the Union scheme, how they may apply to register, the obligations to notify any changes to the registration, and when a registration may be cancelled.
6.New Schedule 3BA Part 3 sets out the responsibility of a person registered to use the Union Scheme in the UK to submit returns to the Commissioners for the VAT due in the consumers’ MS and to pay the VAT due. It specifies when the return and payment are to be made and the way they are to be submitted. It also places an obligation upon the registered business to produce the relevant business records to the Commissioners in electronic format upon request.
7.New Schedule 3BA Part 4 places obligations upon persons registered for another MS’s equivalent to the Union Scheme in respect of their UK supplies. It sets out that a person registered for such a scheme is not liable to register in the UK on the basis of the BTE supplies made to UK consumers. It permits the Commissioners to deregister a person who has registered in the UK for such supplies but wishes to use the non-UK scheme provided by another MS. It also imposes a record keeping requirement and sets out the rules for amendments, error corrections, late returns and charges to interest applying to declarations of UK VAT made in a non-UK scheme return.
8.New Schedule 3BA Part 5 sets out the rights of appeal of those persons registered to use the Union Scheme and those declaring UK VAT through a non-UK scheme return.
9.New Schedule 3BA Part 6 details the interpretive provisions.
