2010 No. 2940
The Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2010
Made
Laid before the House of Commons
Coming into force
Citation, commencement and effect1
These Regulations may be cited as the Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2010 and come into force on 4th January 2011.
Amendment of the Value Added Tax Regulations 19952
The Value Added Tax Regulations 19956 are amended as follows.
Change of rate, supplementary charge invoices3
In regulation 15A (change of rate, supplementary charge invoices), after “Schedule 3 to the Finance Act 2009” insert “or Schedule 2 to the Finance (No. 2) Act 20107”.
Flat-rate scheme for small businesses
4
For the Table in regulation 55K (flat rate scheme for small businesses, category of business), substitute—
Category of business
Appropriate percentage
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*
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*
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
*“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”.
5
In regulation 55M (withdrawal from the scheme)—
a
in paragraph (1)(a), for “£225,000” substitute “£230,000”,
b
in paragraph (1)(b), for “£225,000 substitute “£230,000”, and
c
in paragraph (2), for “£187,500” substitute “£191,500”.
Repayments to Community traders6
In regulation 173P (the day by which a claim under this Part must be made)—
a
at the beginning of paragraph (1) insert “Subject to paragraph (1A),”; and
b
after paragraph (1) insert—
1A
A repayment application in respect of a repayment period falling within the repayment year commencing on 1st January 2009 must be submitted in accordance with regulation 173I(c) before 1st April 2011.
(This note is not part of the Regulations)