SCHEDULES

F1SCHEDULE 3A Registration in respect of disposals of assets for which a VAT repayment is claimed

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(1)

For the purposes of this Schedule a supply of goods is a relevant supply where—

(a)

the supply is a taxable supply;

(b)

the goods are assets of the business in the course or furtherance of which they are supplied; and

(c)

the person by whom they are supplied, or a predecessor of his, has received or claimed, or is intending to claim, a repayment of VAT on the supply to him, or the importation by him, of the goods or of anything comprised in them.

(2)

In relation to any goods, a person is the predecessor of another for the purposes of this paragraph if—

(a)

that other person is a person to whom he has transferred assets of his business by a transfer of that business, or part of it, as a going concern;

(b)

those assets consisted of or included those goods; and

(c)

the transfer of the assets is one falling by virtue of an order under section 5(3) (or under an enactment re-enacted in section 5(3)) to be treated as neither a supply of goods nor a supply of services;

and the reference in this paragraph to a person’s predecessor includes references to the predecessors of his predecessor through any number of transfers.

(3)

The reference in this paragraph to a repayment of VAT is a reference to such a repayment under a scheme embodied in regulations made under section 39.