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55K.—(1) Where, at a relevant date, a flat-rate trader is expected, on reasonable grounds, to carry on business in more than one category in the period concerned, paragraph (3) below shall apply.
F2(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(3) He shall be regarded as being expected, on reasonable grounds, to carry on that category of business which is expected, on reasonable grounds, to be his main business activity in that period.
(4) In paragraph (3) above, his main business activity in a period is to be determined by reference to the respective proportions of his relevant turnover expected, on reasonable grounds, to be generated by each business activity expected, on reasonable grounds, to be carried on in the period.
[F3Category of business | Appropriate percentage |
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(1) “Labour-only building or construction services” means building or construction services where the value of materials supplied is less than 10 per cent of relevant turnover from such services; any other building or construction services are “general building or construction services”.]] | |
Accountancy or book-keeping | 14.5 |
Advertising | 11 |
Agricultural services | 11 |
Any other activity not listed elsewhere | 12 |
Architect, civil and structural engineer or surveyor | 14.5 |
Boarding or care of animals | 12 |
Business services that are not listed elsewhere | 12 |
Catering services including restaurants and takeaways | 12.5 |
Computer and IT consultancy or data processing | 14.5 |
Computer repair services | 10.5 |
Dealing in waste or scrap | 10.5 |
Entertainment or journalism | 12.5 |
Estate agency or property management services | 12 |
Farming or agriculture that is not listed elsewhere | 6.5 |
Film, radio, television or video production | 13 |
Financial services | 13.5 |
Forestry or fishing | 10.5 |
General building or construction services(1) | 9.5 |
Hairdressing or other beauty treatment services | 13 |
Hiring or renting goods | 9.5 |
Hotel or accommodation | 10.5 |
Investigation or security | 12 |
Labour-only building or construction services(1) | 14.5 |
Laundry or dry-cleaning services | 12 |
Lawyer or legal services | 14.5 |
Library, archive, museum or other cultural activity | 9.5 |
Management consultancy | 14 |
Manufacturing fabricated metal products | 10.5 |
Manufacturing food | 9 |
Manufacturing that is not listed elsewhere | 9.5 |
Manufacturing yarn, textiles or clothing | 9 |
Membership organisation | 8 |
Mining or quarrying | 10 |
Packaging | 9 |
Photography | 11 |
Post offices | 5 |
Printing | 8.5 |
Publishing | 11 |
Pubs | 6.5 |
Real estate activity not listed elsewhere | 14 |
Repairing personal or household goods | 10 |
Repairing vehicles | 8.5 |
Retailing food, confectionary, tobacco, newspapers or children’s clothing | 4 |
Retailing pharmaceuticals, medical goods, cosmetics or toiletries | 8 |
Retailing that is not listed elsewhere | 7.5 |
Retailing vehicles or fuel | 6.5 |
Secretarial services | 13 |
Social work | 11 |
Sport or recreation | 8.5 |
Transport or storage, including couriers, freight, removals and taxis | 10 |
Travel agency | 10.5 |
Veterinary medicine | 11 |
Wholesaling agricultural products | 8 |
Wholesaling food | 7.5 |
Wholesaling that is not listed elsewhere | 8.5 |
Textual Amendments
F1Pt. 7A inserted (25.4.2002) by The Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/1142), regs. 1(2), 7
F2Reg. 55K(2) omitted (1.1.2004) by virtue of The Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No. 6) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/3220), regs. 1(1)(b), 18(3)
F3Reg. 55K Table substituted (4.1.2011) by The Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2940), regs. 1, 4
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