The Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2009

EU Sales Statements

4.  For regulation 21 (interpretation of Part 4) substitute—

“21.   In this Part—

“EU supply of goods” means a supply falling within regulation 22(1) and “EU supplies of goods” shall be construed accordingly;

“EU supply of services” means a supply falling within regulation 22A(1) and “EU supplies of services” shall be construed accordingly;

“first relevant figure” means, up to and including 31st December 2011, £70,000 excluding VAT and thereafter £35,000 excluding VAT;

“NMT supply of goods” means a supply falling within regulation 22C(1) and “NMT supplies of goods” shall be construed accordingly;

“registered in another member State” means registered in accordance with the measures adopted by the competent authority in another member State for the purposes of the common system of VAT and “registered in that member State” and “registered in other member States” shall be construed accordingly;

“second relevant figure” means the sum of the amount mentioned in paragraph 1(1)(a) of Schedule 1 to the Act as that paragraph has effect from time to time and £25,500;

“supply of goods” does not include either a supply of gas supplied through the natural gas distribution network or a supply of electricity;

“value” in the phrases “value of EU supplies”, “value of the taxable person’s taxable supplies” and “value of the taxable person’s supplies” means the consideration for the supplies and includes, if the supply is a supply of goods, the costs of any freight transport services and services ancillary to the transport of the goods charged by the supplier to the customer.”.