PART XIVINPUT TAX AND PARTIAL EXEMPTION

Attribution of input tax to taxable suppliesI1101

1

Subject to F23regulations 102, 103A, 105A and 106ZA, the amount of input tax which a taxable person shall be entitled to deduct provisionally shall be that amount which is attributable to taxable supplies in accordance with this regulation.

2

F7Subject to paragraph (8) below and regulation 107(1)(g)(ii), in respect of each prescribed accounting period—

a

goods imported or acquired by and, F10... goods or services supplied to, the taxable person in the period shall be identified,

b

there shall be attributed to taxable supplies the whole of the input tax on such of those goods or services as are used or to be used by him exclusively in making taxable supplies,

c

no part of the input tax on such of those goods or services as are used or to be used by him exclusively in making exempt supplies, or in carrying on any activity other than the making of taxable supplies, shall be attributed to taxable supplies, F17...

d

F15where a taxable person does not have an immediately preceding longer period and subject to subparagraph (e) below, there shall be attributed to taxable supplies such proportion of the F22residual input tax as bears the same ratio to the total of such input tax as the value of taxable supplies made by him bears to the value of all supplies made by him in the period.

F11e

the attribution required by subparagraph (d) above may be made on the basis of the extent to which the goods or services are used or to be used by him in making taxable supplies,

f

where a taxable person has an immediately preceding longer period and subject to subparagraph (g) below, his residual input tax shall be attributed to taxable supplies by reference to the percentage recovery rate for that immediately preceding longer period, and

g

the attribution required by subparagraph (f) above may be made using the calculation specified in subparagraph (d) above provided that that calculation is used for all the prescribed accounting periods which fall within any longer period applicable to a taxable person.

3

In calculating the proportion under paragraph (2)(d) F21or (g) above, there shall be excluded—

a

any sum receivable by the taxable person in respect of any supply of capital goods used by him for the purposes of his business,

b

any sum receivable by the taxable person in respect of any of the following descriptions of supplies made by him, where such supplies are incidental to one or more of his business activities—

F18i

any supply of a description falling within Group 5 of Schedule 9 to the Act,,

ii

any other financial transaction, and

iii

any real estate transaction,

c

that part of the value of any supply of goods on which output tax is not chargeable by virtue of any order made by the Treasury under section 25(7) of the Act unless the taxable person has imported, acquired or been supplied with the goods for the purpose of selling them, F6...

d

the value of any supply which, under or by virtue of any provision of the Act, the taxable person makes to himself, F2...

F1e

supplies of a description falling within paragraph (8) belowF4, and

f

the value of supplies made from an establishment situated outside the United Kingdom,

F16g

where a removal of goods is treated as a taxable supply by virtue of F5paragraph 31A(1) of Schedule 9ZB to the Act, the value of that supply.

4

The ratio calculated for the purpose of paragraph (2)(d) F14, (e) or (g) above shall be expressed as a percentage and, if that percentage is not a whole number, it shall be rounded up F13as specified in paragraph (5) below.

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The percentage shall be rounded up—

a

where in any prescribed accounting period or longer period which is applied the amount of input tax which is available for attribution under paragraph 2(d) F12, (e) or (g) above prior to any such attribution being made does not amount to more than £400,000 per month on average, to the next whole number, and

b

in any other case, to two decimal places.

F96

For the purposes of this regulation, a “real estate transaction” includes any grant, assignment (including any transfer, disposition or sale), surrender or reverse surrender of any interest in, right over or licence to occupy land.

F197

In this regulation “taxable supplies” include supplies of a description falling within regulation 103.

8

Input tax incurred on goods or services acquired by or supplied to a taxable person which are used or to be used by him in whole or in part in making—

a

supplies falling within either item 1 or item 6 of Group 5 of Schedule 9 to the Act; F8...

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shall, whether the supply in question is made within or outside the United Kingdom, be attributed to taxable supplies on the basis of the extent to which the goods or services are used or to be used by him in making taxable supplies.

9

For the purposes of this regulation in relation to a taxable person—

a

“immediately preceding longer period” means the longer period applicable to him which ends immediately before the longer period in which the prescribed accounting period in respect of which he is making the attribution required by paragraph (2)(d) to (g) above falls;

b

“percentage recovery rate” means the amount of relevant residual input tax which he was entitled to attribute to taxable supplies under regulation 107(1)(a) to (d), expressed as a percentage of the total amount of the residual input tax which fell to be so attributed and rounded up in accordance with paragraphs (4) and (5) above;

c

“relevant residual input tax” means all residual input tax other than that which falls to be attributed under paragraph (8) above.

10

In this regulation “residual input tax” means input tax incurred by a taxable person on goods or services which are used or to be used by him in making both taxable and exempt supplies.