SCHEDULES

[F1 SCHEDULE 10 U.K. BUILDINGS AND LAND

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 10 substituted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Value Added Tax (Buildings and Land) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1146), arts. 1(1), 2 (with Sch. 2)

PART 2 U.K. RESIDENTIAL AND CHARITABLE BUILDINGS: CHANGE OF USE ETC

Person to whom supply made uses building otherwise than for relevant residential or charitable purpose U.K.

37. (1) This paragraph applies if one or more relevant zero-rated supplies relating to a building (or part of a building) have been made to a person and, within the period of 10 years beginning with the day on which the building is completed, the person uses—

(a) the building or any part of it, or

(b) the building or any part of it including, consisting of or forming part of the part to which the relevant zero-rated supply or supplies related,

for a purpose which is neither a relevant residential purpose nor a relevant charitable purpose.

(2) The person’s interest in, right over or licence to occupy so much of the building as—

(a) by reason of its intended use gave rise to the relevant zero-rated supply or supplies, and

(b) is used otherwise than for a relevant residential purpose or a relevant charitable purpose,

is treated as follows.

(3) The interest, right or licence is treated for the purposes of this Act as—

(a) supplied to the person for the purposes of a business which the person carries on, and

(b) supplied by the person in the course or furtherance of the business when the person first uses it for a purpose which is neither a relevant residential purpose nor a relevant charitable purpose.

(4) The supply is taken to be a taxable supply which is not zero-rated as a result of Group 5 of Schedule 8.

(5) The value of the supply is taken to be the amount obtained by the formula—

(6) For the purposes of the formula, A is the amount that yields an amount of VAT chargeable on it equal to—

(a) the VAT which would have been chargeable on the relevant zero-rated supply, or

(b) if there was more than one supply, the aggregate amount of the VAT which would have been chargeable on the supplies,

had so much of the building not been intended for use solely for a relevant residential purpose or a relevant charitable purpose.

(7) For the purposes of the formula, B is the number of whole years since the day the building was completed for which the building or part concerned has been used for—

(a) a relevant residential purpose, or

(b) a relevant charitable purpose.]