The Value Added Tax Regulations 1995

Goods removed from warehousing regime

43.  —

(1) This regulation applies to a registered person who is an approved person within the meaning of the Excise Duties (Deferred Payment) Regulations 1992(1) in respect of goods which are at a specified warehouse.

(2) Where a person to whom this regulation applies is the person who is liable under section 18(4)(b) of the Act to pay VAT on a supply of goods while the goods are subject to a warehousing regime, he may pay that VAT at or before the relevant time determined in accordance with paragraph (3) below instead of at the time provided for by the said section 18(4)(b).

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) above the relevant time means—

(a) in relation to hydrocarbon oils, the 15th day of the month immediately following the month in which the hydrocarbon oils were removed from the warehousing regime;

(b) in relation to any other goods subject to a duty of excise, the day (payment day) on which the registered person is required to pay the excise duty on the goods in accordance with regulation 5 of the Excise Duties (Deferred Payment) Regulations 1992.

(4) Where any goods of a kind chargeable to a duty of excise qualify for any relief of that duty, that relief shall be disregarded for the purposes of determining the relevant time under paragraph (3) above.

(1)

S.I. 1992/3152.