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4. This Chapter applies to a person who—
(a)makes a transitional simplified Customs declaration in accordance with regulation 29C(1)(a) of the Customs (Import Duty) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018, or makes a declaration that is treated as being made for the purposes of that regulation by regulation 37(1A) of those Regulations, in respect of an importation of goods into Great Britain from the EU, and
(b)is registered, or required to be registered, for VAT at the time the person makes that declaration.
5.—(1) A person to whom this Chapter applies (P) must account for and pay import VAT on goods which comprise a relevant importation in accordance with the provision made by this Chapter.
(2) The effect of section 16(2) of VATA 1994 (application of customs enactments)(1) is modified to the extent that this Chapter makes different provision for accounting for import VAT, including the timing of such accounting, on a relevant importation.
6. In this Chapter a “relevant importation” is an importation of goods into Great Britain from the EU where the goods are—
(a)chargeable with import VAT for which P is liable,
(b)used or to be used by P for the purposes of a business P carries on,
(c)required to be declared for the free circulation procedure under Part 1 of TCTA 2018 during the period beginning at IP completion day and ending on 30th June 2021, and
(d)not of a description excluded from the transitional EIDR procedure by virtue of regulation 29C(4) of the Customs (Import Duty) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018.
7. P must account for and pay the import VAT on goods which comprise a relevant importation on the return that P is required to make for the prescribed accounting period in which the liability for the import VAT is incurred.
8. The following provisions of the Value Added Tax (Accounting Procedures for Import VAT for VAT Registered Persons and Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019(2) apply for the purposes of this Chapter with, where applicable, the stated modification—
(a)regulation 8 (interest in cases of official error) applies as if the reference to the importation of relevant goods were a reference to a relevant importation;
(b)regulation 10(1)(a) and (2) (appeals).
9. Where this Chapter applies the following provisions of the VAT Regulations(3) are to be applied with the stated modifications—
(a)regulation 28 (estimation of output tax) is to be read as if—
(i)the reference to “output tax” includes import VAT chargeable on goods comprising a relevant importation; and
(ii)the words from “in the next prescribed accounting period” to the end were “in the prescribed accounting period in which the Commissioners make available to the person details of the amount of import duty due from the person on goods comprising a relevant importation (and in this regulation “import duty” means import duty charged under section 1 of the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018).”;
(b)regulation 29(3) (claims for input tax) is to be read as if the words from “in the next prescribed accounting period” to the end read “in the prescribed accounting period in which the Commissioners make available to the person details of the amount of import duty due from the person in that prescribed accounting period on goods comprising a relevant importation (and “import duty” in this regulation means import duty charged under section 1 of the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018).”;
(c)regulation 32(3)(baa) (the VAT account) and regulation 40(1)(ba) (VAT to be accounted for on returns and payment of VAT) are to be read as if after “2019” were added “or Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the Value Added Tax (Miscellaneous and Transitional Provisions, Amendment and Revocation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020(4),”.
Section 16 was substituted by section 43 of, and paragraph 13 of Schedule 8 to, TCTA 2018 but that substitution is not yet in force.
S.I. 2019/60; this instrument is not yet in force.
S.I. 1995/2518; relevantly amended by S.I. 1997/1086, 2003/1114, 2009/586, 2019/59 and 2019/60. The amendments made by S.I. 2019/59 and S.I. 2019/60 are not yet in force.
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