The Value Added Tax Regulations 1995

Admission to the scheme

63.  —

(1) Where a person operating the scheme ceases business or ceases to be registered, or dies or becomes bankrupt or incapacitated, he or his representative shall within 2 months or such longer period as the Commissioners may allow make a return accounting for, and pay, VAT on supplies made and received during the previous 6 months which has not otherwise been accounted for, subject to any adjustment for credit for input tax, and VAT in respect of any payment or other consideration received for earlier supplies must be accounted for and paid when received.

(2) Where a business or part of a business carried on by a person operating the scheme is transferred as a going concern and regulation 6(1) does not apply, the transferor shall within 2 months make a return accounting for, and pay, VAT on supplies made and received during the previous 6 months which has not otherwise been accounted for, subject to any adjustment for credit for input tax, and VAT in respect of any payment or other consideration received for earlier supplies must be accounted for and paid when received.

(3) Where a business carried on by a person operating the scheme is transferred in circumstances where regulation 6(2) applies, the transferee shall continue to account for and pay VAT as if he were a person operating the scheme on supplies made and received by the transferor prior to the date of transfer.