Value Added Tax Act 1994

[F1 Part 2 U.K. Exceptions relating to supplies made to relevant business person

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 4A inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 36 para. 14(3) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2009 (c. 10), Sch. 36 para. 11 (with Sch. 36 para. 19)

Electronically-supplied services U.K.

9 (1) Where— U.K.

(a) a supply of services consisting of the provision of electronically supplied services to a relevant business person would otherwise be treated as made in the United Kingdom, and

(b) the services are to any extent effectively used and enjoyed in a country which is not a member State,

the supply is to be treated to that extent as made in that country.

(2) Where—

(a) a supply of services consisting of the provision of electronically supplied services to a relevant business person would otherwise be treated as made in a country which is not a member State, and

(b) the services are to any extent effectively used and enjoyed in the United Kingdom,

the supply is to be treated to that extent as made in the United Kingdom.

(3) Examples of what are electronically supplied services for the purposes of this Schedule include—

(a) website supply, web-hosting and distance maintenance of programmes and equipment,

(b) the supply of software and the updating of software,

(c) the supply of images, text and information, and the making available of databases,

(d) the supply of music, films and games (including games of chance and gambling games),

(e) the supply of political, cultural, artistic, sporting, scientific, educational or entertainment broadcasts (including broadcasts of events), and

(f) the supply of distance teaching.

(4) But where the supplier of a service and the supplier's customer communicate via electronic mail, this does not of itself mean that the service provided is an electronically supplied service for the purposes of this Schedule.

[F2 Admission to cultural, educational and entertainment activities etc U.K.

Textual Amendments

F2 Sch. 4A para. 9A and cross-heading inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 36 para. 16 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2009 (c. 10), Sch. 36 para. 15(3) (with Sch. 36 para. 19)

9A (1) A supply to a relevant business person of services to which this paragraph applies is to be treated as made in the country in which the events in question actually take place. U.K.

(2) This paragraph applies to the provision of—

(a) services in respect of admission to cultural, artistic, sporting, scientific, educational, entertainment or similar events (including fairs and exhibitions), and

(b) ancillary services relating to admission to such events.]

[F3 Transport of goods U.K.

Textual Amendments

F3 Sch. 4A paras. 9B, 9C and cross-headings inserted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Value Added Tax (Place of Supply of Services) (Transport of Goods) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2787), arts. 1(1), 2(2)

9B U.K. Where—

(a) a supply of services to a relevant business person consisting of the transportation of goods would otherwise be treated as made in the United Kingdom, and

(b) the transportation takes place wholly outside the member States,

the supply is to be treated as made wholly outside the member States.

Ancillary transport services U.K.

9C (1) Where— U.K.

(a) a supply of services to a relevant business person consisting of ancillary transport services would otherwise be treated as made in the United Kingdom, and

(b) the services are physically performed wholly outside the member States,

the supply is to be treated as made wholly outside the member States.

(2) In sub-paragraph (1)(a) “ancillary transport services” means loading, unloading, handling and similar activities.]]