(1)Subject to the following provisions of this section, tax shall be charged at the rate of 15 per cent, and shall be charged—
(a)on the supply of goods or services, by reference to the value of the supply as determined under this Act; and
(b)on the importation of goods, by reference to the value of the goods as determined under this Act.
(2)The Treasury may by order increase or decrease the rate of tax for the time being in force by such percentage thereof not exceeding 25 per cent, as may be specified in the order, but any such order shall cease to be in force at the expiration of a period of one year from the date on which it takes effect, unless continued in force by a further order under this subsection.
(3)In relation to an order made under subsection (2) above to continue, vary or replace a previous order, the reference in that subsection to the rate for the time being in force is a reference to the rate which would be in force if no order under that subsection had been made.
(1)For the purposes of this Act the value of any supply of goods or services shall be determined as follows.
(2)If the supply is for a consideration in money its value shall be taken to be such amount as, with the addition of the tax chargeable, is equal to the consideration.
(3)If the supply is not for a consideration or is for a consideration not consisting or not wholly consisting of money, the value of the supply shall be taken to be its open, market value.
(4)Where a supply of any goods or services is not the only matter to which a consideration in money relates the supply shall be deemed to be for such part of the consideration as is properly attributable to it.
(5)For the purposes of this Act the open market value of a supply of goods or services shall be taken to be the amount that would fall to be taken as its value under subsection (2) above if the supply were for such consideration in money as would be payable by a person standing in no such relationship with any person as would affect that consideration.
(6)This section has effect subject to Schedule 4 to this Act.
(1)For the purposes of this Act, the value of imported goods shall be determined as follows.
(2)If the goods are imported at a price in money payable as on a transfer of the property, there being no other consideration, the value is an amount equal to the price, plus (so far as not already included)—
(a)all taxes, duties and other charges levied either outside or, by reason of importation, within the United Kingdom (except value added tax); and
(b)all costs by way of commission, packing, transport and insurance up to the port or place of importation.
(3)Where subsection (2) above does not apply, the value of the goods is their open market value as determined in accordance with Community legislation relating to the valuation of goods for customs purposes, plus (so far as not already included in that value) all such taxes, duties, charges and costs as are specified in subsection (2) (a) and (b) above.
(4)This section has effect subject to Schedule 4 to this Act.
(1)Where a person makes a supply on which tax is chargeable by applying, or causing to be applied, any treatment or process to another person's goods, then if the goods—
(a)are not goods to which subsection (3) below applies, but
(b)become as a result of the treatment or process goods to which that subsection applies,
the amount of the tax chargeable shall, subject to the following provisions of this section, be determined as if the supply had been a sale for full consideration of the goods resulting from the treatment or process.
(2)Subsection (1) above does not apply where the person to whom the supply is made—
(a)is registered under this Act; and
(b)gives to the person making the supply a certificate, in such form and containing such particulars as the Commissioners may by regulations prescribe, that the supply is for the purpose of a business carried on or to be carried on by him.
(3)This subsection applies to aircraft of a weight of 8,000 kilogrammes or more, and hovercraft, if (in each case) they have been adapted, but were not designed, for use for recreation or pleasure.
(4)The Treasury may by order vary subsection (3) above by adding to or deleting from it any description of goods or by varying any description of goods for the time being specified in it.
(5)The Treasury may by order make provision for securing a reduction of the tax chargeable on supplies to which subsection (1) above applies in cases where—
(a)tax was previously chargeable on a supply or importation of the goods to which the treatment or process is applied; and
(b)such other conditions are satisfied as may be specified in the order or as may be imposed by the Commissioners in pursuance of the order.
(6)A person who applies or causes to be applied a treatment or process to another person's goods shall, if the goods satisfy the conditions of paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) above, be treated for the purposes of paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to this Act as producing the resulting goods by applying the treatment or process, whether or not he would otherwise fall to be so treated.
(1)Where a person plays a game of chance by means of a gaming machine, then for the purposes of the tax (but without prejudice to subsection (2) below) the amount paid by him to play shall be treated as the consideration for a supply of services to him.
(2)The value to be taken as the value of supplies made in the circumstances mentioned in subsection (1) above in any period shall be determined as if the consideration for the supplies were reduced by an amount equal to the amount (if any) received in that period by persons (other than the person making the supply and persons acting on his behalf) playing successfully.
(3)The insertion of a token into a machine shall be treated for the purposes of subsection (1) above as the payment of an amount equal to that for which the token can be obtained; and the receipt of a token by a person playing successfully shall be treated for the purposes of subsection (2) above—
(a)if the token is of a kind used to play the machine, as the receipt of an amount equal to that for which such a token can be obtained ;
(b)if the token is not of such a kind but can be exchanged for money, as the receipt of an amount equal to that for which it can be exchanged.
(4)In this section—
" game of chance " has the same meaning as in the [1968 c. 65.] Gaming Act 1968; and
" gaming machine " means a machine in respect of which the following conditions are satisfied, namely—
it is constructed or adapted for playing a game of chance by means of it; and
a player pays to play the machine (except where he has an opportunity to play payment-free as the result of having previously played successfully), either by inserting a coin or token into the machine or in some other way ; and
the element of chance in the game is provided by means of the machine.