The Value Added Tax (Cars) Order 1992

Self-supplies

5.—(1) This article applies to the following motor cars produced or obtained by a taxable person in the course or furtherance of any business carried on by him, that is to say–

(a) any motor car produced by him otherwise than by the conversion of a vehicle obtained by him;

(b) any motor car produced by him by the conversion of another vehicle (whether a motor car or not) and in respect of which the conditions specified in paragraph (2) below are satisfied;

(c) any motor car obtained by him and in respect of which the conditions specified in paragraph (2) below are satisfied.

(2) The conditions mentioned in paragraph (1) above are–

(a) that the motor car or other vehicle was supplied to the taxable person or was acquired by him from another member State or was imported by him; and

(b) tax was chargeable on that supply, acquisition or importation; and

(c) the taxable person is entitled to credit for that tax under sections 14 and 15 of the Act.

(3) Save in the case of a motor car to which article 6 below applies, where a motor car to which this article applies–

(a) is neither supplied by the taxable person in the course or furtherance of any business carried on by him, nor converted into another vehicle (whether a motor car or not) in the course of furtherance of that business; but

(b) is used by him for the purpose of that business,

the motor car shall be treated for the purposes of the Act as both supplied to him for the purposes of that business and supplied by him in the course or furtherance of that business, except where the Commissioners are satisfied that the motor car is, or is to be, used solely for the purpose of research and development in his business as a producer of motor cars (other than as a producer of motor cars solely by the conversion of vehicles).