The Value Added Tax Regulations 1995

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Exceptional claims for VAT reliefU.K.

111. —

(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (4) below, on a claim made in accordance with paragraph (3) below, the Commissioners may authorise a taxable person to treat as if it were input tax—

(a)VAT on the supply of goods or services to the taxable person before the date with effect from which he was, or was required to be, registered, or paid by him on the importation or acquisition of goods before that date, for the purpose of a business which either was carried on or was to be carried on by him at the time of such supply or payment, and

(b)in the case of a body corporate, VAT on goods obtained for it before its incorporation, or on the supply of services before that time for its benefit or in connection with its incorporation, provided that the person to whom the supply was made or who paid VAT on the importation or acquisition—

(i)became a member, officer or employee of the body and was reimbursed, or has received an undertaking to be reimbursed, by the body for the whole amount of the price paid for the goods or services,

(ii)was not at the time of the importation, acquisition or supply a taxable person, and

(iii)imported, acquired or was supplied with the goods, or received the services, for the purpose of a business to be carried on by the body and has not used them for any purpose other than such a business.

[F1(2) No VAT may be treated as if it were input tax under paragraph (1) above—

(a)in respect of—

(i)goods or services which had been supplied, or

(ii)save as the Commissioners may otherwise allow, goods which had been consumed,

by the relevant person before the date with effect from which the taxable person was, or was required to be, registered;

(b)subject to paragraph (2A) [F2, (2C) and (2D)] below, in respect of goods which had been supplied to, or imported or acquired by, the relevant person more than [F34 years] before the date with effect from which the taxable person was, or was required to be, registered;

(c)in respect of services performed upon goods to which sub-paragraph (a) or (b) above applies; F4...

(d)in respect of services which had been supplied to the relevant person more than 6 months before the date with effect from which the taxable person was, or was required to be, registered]; [F5or

(e)in respect of capital items of a description falling within regulation 113.]

[F6(2A) Paragraph (2)(b) above does not apply where—

(a)the taxable person was registered before 1st May 1997; and

(b)he did not make any returns before that date.

(2B) In paragraph (2) above references to the relevant person are references to—

(a)the taxable person; or

(b)in the case of paragraph (1)(b) above, the person to whom the supply had been made, or who had imported or acquired the goods, as the case may be.]

[F7(2C) Where the relevant person was, or was required to be, registered on or before 1st April 2009, no VAT may be treated as if it were input tax under paragraph (1) above in respect of goods which were supplied to, or imported or acquired by the relevant person more than 3 years before the date with effect from which that person was, or was required to be, registered.

(2D) Where the relevant person was or was required to be registered on or before 31st March 2010 and paragraph (2C) above does not apply, no VAT may be treated as if it were input tax under paragraph (1) above in respect of goods which were supplied to, or imported or acquired by, the relevant person on or before 31st March 2006.]

(3) [F8Subject to paragraphs (3A) and (3B) below,] a claim under paragraph (1) above shall, save as the Commissioners may otherwise allow, be made on [F9the first return the taxable person is required to make] and, as the Commissioners may require, be supported by invoices and other evidence.

[F10(3A) Where the taxable person was registered before 1st May 1997 and has not made any returns before that date paragraph (3) above shall have effect as if for the words “the first return the taxable person is required to make” there were substituted the words “the first return the taxable person makes”.

(3B) [F11Subject to paragraph (3C)] the Commissioners shall not allow a person to make any claim under paragraph (3) above in terms such that the VAT concerned would fall to be claimed as if it were input tax more than [F124 years] after the date by which the first return he is required to make is required to be made.]

[F13(3C) The Commissioners shall not allow a person to make any claim under paragraph (3) above in the circumstances where the first return the taxable person was required to make was required to be made on or before 31st March 2006.]

(4) A taxable person making a claim under paragraph (1) above shall compile and preserve for such period as the Commissioners may require—

(a)in respect of goods, a stock account showing separately quantities purchased, quantities used in the making of other goods, date of purchase and date and manner of subsequent disposals of both such quantities, and

(b)in respect of services, a list showing their description, date of purchase and date of disposal, if any.

(5) [F14Subject to paragraph (6) below,] if a person who has been, but is no longer, a taxable person makes a claim in such manner and supported by such evidence as the Commissioners may require, they may pay to him the amount of any VAT on the supply of services to him after the date with effect from which he ceased to be, or to be required to be, registered and which was attributable to any taxable supply made by him in the course or furtherance of any business carried on by him when he was, or was required to be, registered.

[F15(6) Subject to paragraph (7) [F16and (8)] below, no claim under paragraph (5) above may be made more than [F174 years] after the date on which the supply of services was made.

(7) Paragraph (6) above does not apply where—

(a)the person ceased to be, or ceased to be required to be, registered before 1st May 1997; and

(b)the supply was made before that date.]

[F18(8) No claim may be made under paragraph (5) above in relation to a supply of services which was made on or before 31st March 2006.]

Textual Amendments

F1Reg. 111(2) substituted (1.5.1997) by The Value Added Tax (Amendment) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/1086), regs. 1, 7(a)

F2Words in reg. 111(2)(b) inserted (1.4.2009) by The Value Added Tax (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/586), regs. 1, 8(a)(i)

F3Words in reg. 111(2)(b) substituted (1.4.2009) by The Value Added Tax (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/586), regs. 1, 8(a)(ii)

F4Word in reg. 111(2)(c) revoked (1.1.2011) by The Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/3022), regs. 1(1), 9(a) (with reg. 1(4))

F5Reg. 111(2)(e) and word inserted (1.1.2011) by The Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/3022), regs. 1(1), 9(b) (with reg. 1(4))

F6Reg. 111(2A)(2B) inserted (1.5.1997) by The Value Added Tax (Amendment) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/1086), regs. 1, 7(b)

F7Reg. 111(2C)(2D) inserted (1.4.2009) by The Value Added Tax (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/586), regs. 1, 8(b)