SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3Value added tax: abolition of fiscal frontiers etc.

Part IAmendments of the Value Added Tax Act 1983 (c. 55)

Administration, collection and enforcement

64(1)In paragraph 2 of Schedule 7 (regulations about accounting for and paying tax), in sub-paragraph (1)—

(a)for “to other taxable persons to provide them” there shall be substituted “in such cases, or to persons of such descriptions, as may be so specified to provide the persons supplied”; and

(b)for the words from “the tax chargeable” onwards there shall be substituted “and of the persons by and to whom the goods or services are supplied and containing such an indication as may be required by the regulations of whether value added tax is chargeable on the supply under this Act or the law of another member State and such particulars of any value added tax which is so chargeable as may be so specified.”

(2)In sub-paragraph (2) of that paragraph, for “and may allow for that time to be extended” there shall be substituted “or at such time before the supply is treated as taking place as may be required by the regulations, and may allow for an invoice to be issued later than required by the regulations where it is issued”.

(3)After sub-paragraph (2) of that paragraph there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraphs—

(2A)Regulations under this paragraph may require the submission to the Commissioners by taxable persons, at such times and intervals, in such cases and in such form and manner as may be—

(a)specified in the regulations; or

(b)determined by the Commissioners in accordance with powers conferred by the regulations,

of statements containing such particulars of transactions in which the taxable persons are concerned and which involve the movement of goods between member States, and of the persons concerned in those transactions, as may be prescribed.

(2B)Regulations under this paragraph may make provision in relation to cases where—

(a)any goods which are subject to a duty of excise or consist in a new means of transport are acquired in the United Kingdom from another member State by any person;

(b)the acquisition of the goods is a taxable acquisition and is not in pursuance of a taxable supply; and

(c)that person is not a taxable person at the time of the acquisition,

for requiring the person who acquires the goods to give to the Commissioners such notification of the acquisition, and for requiring any tax on the acquisition to be paid, at such time and in such form or manner as may be specified in the regulations.

(2C)Regulations under this paragraph may provide for a notification required by virtue of sub-paragraph (2B) above—

(a)to contain such particulars relating to the notified acquisition and any tax chargeable thereon as may be specified in the regulations; and

(b)to be given, in prescribed cases, by the personal representative, trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, liquidator or person otherwise acting in a representative capacity in relation to the person who makes that acquisition.

(4)After sub-paragraph (3A) of that paragraph there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraphs—

(3B)Regulations under this paragraph may make provision whereby, in such cases and subject to such conditions as may be determined by or under the regulations—

(a)tax in respect of any supply by a taxable person of dutiable goods or of a chargeable vehicle within the meaning of the [1983 c. 53.] Car Tax Act 1983; or

(b)tax in respect of an acquisition by any person from another member State of dutiable goods or of such a vehicle,

may be accounted for and paid, and any question as to the inclusion of any duty, car tax or agricultural levy in the value of the supply or acquisition determined, by reference to the duty point or, as the case may be, the time when the car tax becomes due or by reference to such later time as the Commissioners may allow.

In this sub-paragraph “dutiable goods” and “duty point” have the same meanings as in section 35 of this Act.

(3C)Regulations under this paragraph may provide for the time when any invoice described in regulations made for the purposes of section 5(3B)(b) or 8B(1)(b) of this Act is to be treated as having been issued and provide for tax accounted for and paid by reference to the date of issue of such an invoice to be confined to tax on so much of the value of the supply or acquisition as is shown on the invoice.