Textual Amendments
(1)In subsection (1) of section 21 of the M1Value Added Tax Act 1994 (value of imported goods), for “and (3)” there shall be substituted “ to (4) ”; and after subsection (3) there shall be inserted the following subsections—
“(4)For the purposes of this Act, the value of any goods falling within subsection (5) below which are imported from a place outside the member States shall be taken to be an amount equal to 14.29 per cent. of the amount which, apart from this subsection, would be their value for those purposes.
(5)The goods which fall within this subsection are—
(a)any work of art which was obtained by any person before 1st April 1973 otherwise than by his producing it himself or by succession on the death of the person who produced it;
(b)any work of art which was—
(i)exported from the United Kingdom before 1st April 1973,
(ii)exported from the United Kingdom on or after that date and before 1st January 1993 by a person who, had he supplied it in the United Kingdom at the date when it was exported, would not have had to account for VAT on the full value of the supply, or
(iii)exported from the United Kingdom on or after 1st January 1993 by such a person to a place which, at the time, was outside the member States,
being, in each case, a work of art which has not been imported between the time when it was exported and the importation in question;
(c)any antique more than one hundred years old, being neither a work of art nor pearls or loose gem stones; and
(d)collectors’ pieces of zoological, botanical, mineralogical, anatomical, historical, archaeological, paleontological or ethnographic interest.
(6)In this section “work of art” means goods falling within any of the following descriptions, that is to say—
(a)paintings, drawings and pastels executed by hand but not comprised in manufactured articles that have been hand-painted or hand-decorated;
(b)original engravings, lithographs and other prints;
(c)original sculptures and statuary, in any material.
(7)An order under section 2(2) may contain provision making such alteration of the percentage for the time being specified in subsection (4) above as the Treasury consider appropriate in consequence of any increase or decrease by that order of the rate of VAT.”
(2)This section shall have effect in relation to goods imported at any time on or after the day on which this Act is passed.
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(1)In subsection (1) of section 47 of the M2Value Added Tax Act 1994 (agents etc.), for “the goods may” there shall be substituted “ then, if the taxable person acts in relation to the supply in his own name, the goods shall ”.
(2)After subsection (2) of that section there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(2A)Where, in the case of any supply of goods to which subsection (1) above does not apply, goods are supplied through an agent who acts in his own name, the supply shall be treated both as a supply to the agent and as a supply by the agent.”
(3)In subsection (3) of that section, the words “goods or” shall be omitted.
(4)This section shall have effect—
(a)so far as it amends section 47(1) of that Act, in relation to goods acquired or imported on or after the day on which this Act is passed; and
(b)for other purposes, in relation to any supply taking place on or after that day.
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(1)After section 50 of the M3Value Added Tax Act 1994 there shall be inserted the following section—
(1)The Treasury may by order provide, in relation to any such description of supplies to which this section applies as may be specified in the order, for a taxable person to be entitled to opt that, where he makes supplies of that description, VAT is to be charged by reference to the profit margin on the supplies, instead of by reference to their value.
(2)This section applies to the following supplies, that is to say—
(a)supplies of works of art, antiques or collectors’ items;
(b)supplies of motor vehicles;
(c)supplies of second-hand goods; and
(d)any supply of goods through a person who acts as an agent, but in his own name, in relation to the supply.
(3)An option for the purposes of an order under this section shall be exercisable, and may be withdrawn, in such manner as may be required by such an order.
(4)Subject to subsection (7) below, the profit margin on a supply to which this section applies shall be taken, for the purposes of an order under this section, to be equal to the amount (if any) by which the price at which the person making the supply obtained the goods in question is exceeded by the price at which he supplies them.
(5)For the purposes of this section the price at which a person has obtained any goods and the price at which he supplies them shall each be calculated in accordance with the provisions contained in an order under this section; and such an order may, in particular, make provision stipulating the extent to which any VAT charged on a supply, acquisition or importation of any goods is to be treated as included in the price at which those goods have been obtained or are supplied.
(6)An order under this section may provide that the consideration for any services supplied in connection with a supply of goods by a person who acts as an agent, but in his own name, in relation to the supply of the goods is to be treated for the purposes of any such order as an amount to be taken into account in computing the profit margin on the supply of the goods, instead of being separately chargeable to VAT as comprised in the value of the services supplied.
(7)An order under this section may provide for the total profit margin on all the goods of a particular description supplied by a person in any prescribed accounting period to be calculated by—
(a)aggregating all the prices at which that person obtained goods of that description in that period together with any amount carried forward to that period in pursuance of paragraph (d) below;
(b)aggregating all the prices at which he supplies goods of that description in that period;
(c)treating the total profit margin on goods supplied in that period as being equal to the amount (if any) by which, for that period, the aggregate calculated in pursuance of paragraph (a) above is exceeded by the aggregate calculated in pursuance of paragraph (b) above; and
(d)treating any amount by which, for that period, the aggregate calculated in pursuance of paragraph (b) above is exceeded by the aggregate calculated in pursuance of paragraph (a) above as an amount to be carried forward to the following prescribed accounting period so as to be included, for the period to which it is carried forward, in any aggregate falling to be calculated in pursuance of paragraph (a) above.
(8)An order under this section may—
(a)make different provision for different cases; and
(b)make provisions of the order subject to such general or special directions as may, in accordance with the order, be given by the Commissioners with respect to any matter to which the order relates.”
(2)Section 32 of that Act (relief on supply of certain second-hand goods) shall cease to have effect on such day as the Commissioners of Customs and Excise may by order made by statutory instrument appoint.
Marginal Citations
(1) Section 43 of the M4Value Added Tax Act 1994 (groups of companies) shall be amended as follows.
(2)[F2After subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(1A)Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) above shall not apply in relation to any supply of goods or services by one member of a group to another unless both the body making the supply and the body supplied continue to be members of that group until—
(a)in the case of a supply of goods which are to be removed in pursuance of the supply, a time after the removal;
(b)in the case of any other supply of goods, a time after the goods have been made available, in pursuance of the supply, to the body supplied; or
(c)in the case of a supply of services, a time after the services have been performed.”];
and in subsection (1)(b), for “other supply” there shall be substituted “ supply which is a supply to which paragraph (a) above does not apply and is a supply ”.
(3)In subsection (5) (applications to be treated or to cease to be treated as members of a group etc.), for the words after paragraph (d) there shall be substituted—
“unless the Commissioners refuse the application under subsection (5A) below.”
(4)After subsection (5) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(5A)If it appears to the Commissioners necessary to do so for the protection of the revenue, they may—
(a)refuse any application made to the effect mentioned in paragraph (a) or (c) of subsection (5) above; or
(b)refuse any application made to the effect mentioned in paragraph (b) or (d) of that subsection in a case that does not appear to them to fall within subsection (6) below.”
(5)Subsection (2) above has effect in relation to—
(a)any supply made on or after 1st March 1995, and
(b)any supply made before that date in the case of which both the body making the supply and the body supplied continued to be members of the group in question until at least that date,
and subsections (3) and (4) above have effect in relation to applications made on or after the day on which this Act is passed.
Textual Amendments
F2Words in s. 25(2) repealed (29.4.1996 with effect as mentioned in s. 31(5) of the amending Act) by 1996 c. 8, s. 205, Sch. 41 Pt. IV(5)
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Textual Amendments
F3S. 26 repealed (with effect in accordance with art. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Value Added Tax (Buildings and Land) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1146), arts. 1(1), 5(1) (with Sch. 2)
(1)Section 81 of the M5Value Added Tax Act 1994 (which includes provision as to the setting off of credits) shall be amended as follows.
(2)For subsection (4) there shall be substituted the following subsections—
“(4A)Subsection (3) above shall not require any such amount as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of that subsection (“the credit”) to be set against any such sum as is mentioned in paragraph (b) of that subsection (“the debit”) in any case where—
(a)an insolvency procedure has been applied to the person entitled to the credit;
(b)the credit became due after that procedure was so applied; and
(c)the liability to pay the debit either arose before that procedure was so applied or (having arisen afterwards) relates to, or to matters occurring in the course of, the carrying on of any business at times before the procedure was so applied.
(4B)Subject to subsection (4C) below, the following are the times when an insolvency procedure is to be taken, for the purposes of this section, to be applied to any person, that is to say—
(a)when a bankruptcy order, winding-up order, adminis-tration order or award of sequestration is made in relation to that person;
(b)when that person is put into administrative receivership;
(c)when that person, being a corporation, passes a resolution for voluntary winding up;
(d)when any voluntary arrangement approved in accordance with Part I or VIII of the Insolvency Act 1986, or Part II or Chapter II of Part VIII of the M6Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989, comes into force in relation to that person;
(e)when a deed of arrangement registered in accordance with the M7Deeds of Arrangement Act 1914 or Chapter I of Part VIII of that Order of 1989 takes effect in relation to that person;
(f)when that person’s estate becomes vested in any other person as that person’s trustee under a trust deed.
(4C)In this section references, in relation to any person, to the application of an insolvency procedure to that person shall not include—
(a)the making of a bankruptcy order, winding-up order, administration order or award of sequestration at a time when any such arrangement or deed as is mentioned in subsection (4B)(d) to (f) above is in force in relation to that person;
(b)the making of a winding-up order at any of the following times, that is to say—
(i)immediately upon the discharge of an administration order made in relation to that person;
(ii)when that person is being wound up voluntarily;
(iii)when that person is in administrative receivership;
or
(c)the making of an administration order in relation to that person at any time when that person is in administrative receivership.
(4D)For the purposes of this section a person shall be regarded as being in administrative receivership throughout any continuous period for which (disregarding any temporary vacancy in the office of receiver) there is an administrative receiver of that person, and the reference in subsection (4B) above to a person being put into administrative receivership shall be construed accordingly.”
(3)In subsection (5) (definitions), for “subsection (4) above” there shall be substituted “ this section ”.
(4)This section shall have effect in relation to amounts becoming due from the Commissioners of Customs and Excise at times on or after the day on which this Act is passed.
(1)In section 30 of the M8Value Added Tax Act 1994 (zero-rated supplies) for subsection (5) (transactions described in Schedule 8 to the Act to be treated as supplies) there shall be substituted—
“(5)The export of any goods by a charity to a place outside the member States shall for the purposes of this Act be treated as a supply made by the charity—
(a)in the United Kingdom, and
(b)in the course or furtherance of a business carried on by the charity.”
(2)This section shall have effect in relation to transactions occurring on or after the day on which this Act is passed.
Marginal Citations
In section 18 of the M9Value Added Tax Act 1994 (place and time of acquisition or supply of goods subject to warehousing regime) for subsection (5) (regulations about payment of VAT on supply of such goods) there shall be substituted the following subsections—
“(5)The Commissioners may by regulations make provision for enabling a taxable person to pay the VAT he is required to pay by virtue of paragraph (b) of subsection (4) above at a time later than that provided for by that paragraph.
(5A)Regulations under subsection (5) above may in particular make provision for either or both of the following—
(a)for the taxable person to pay the VAT together with the VAT chargeable on other supplies by him of goods and services;
(b)for the taxable person to pay the VAT together with any duty of excise deferment of which has been granted to him under section 127A of the M10Customs and Excise Management Act 1979;
and they may make different provision for different descriptions of taxable person and for different descriptions of goods.”
(1)Section 57 of the M11Value Added Tax Act 1994 (determination of consideration for fuel supplied for private use) shall be amended as follows.
(2)The following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (1)—
“(1A)Where the prescribed accounting period is a period of 12 months, the consideration appropriate to any vehicle is that specified in relation to a vehicle of the appropriate description in the second column of Table A below.”
(3)In subsection (2) (consideration where prescribed accounting period is period of 3 months) for “second” there shall be substituted “ third ”.
(4)In subsection (3) (consideration where prescribed accounting period is period of one month) for “third” there shall be substituted “ fourth ”.
(5)The following Table shall be substituted for Table A—
| Description of vehicle (Type of engine and cylinder capacity in cubic centimetres) | 12 month period | 3 month period | 1 month period |
|---|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | £ | |
| Diesel engine 2000 or less | 605 | 151 | 50 |
| More than 2000 | 780 | 195 | 65 |
| Any other type of engine 1400 or less | 670 | 167 | 55 |
| More than 1400 but not more than 2000 | 850 | 212 | 70 |
| More than 2000 | 1260 | 315 | 105” |
(6)This section shall apply in relation to prescribed accounting periods beginning on or after 6th April 1995.
(7)Nothing in this section shall be taken to prejudice any practice by which the consideration appropriate to a vehicle is arrived at where a prescribed accounting period beginning before 6th April 1995 is a period of 12 months.
Marginal Citations
(1)In section 84(2) of the M12Value Added Tax Act 1994 (appeal not to be entertained unless amounts shown in returns paid, except in certain cases) the words “, except in the case of an appeal against a decision with respect to the matter mentioned in section 83(l),” shall be omitted.
(2)This section shall apply in relation to appeals brought after the day on which this Act is passed.
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Textual Amendments
F4S. 32 omitted (with effect in accordance with art. 3 of the commencing S.I.) by virtue of Finance Act 2008 (c. 9), s. 123(2), Sch. 41 para. 25(g); S.I. 2009/511, art. 2 (with art. 4)
(1)The M13Value Added Tax Act 1994 shall have effect, and be deemed always to have had effect, as if it had been enacted as follows.
[F5(2)Section 35(1) (refund of VAT to persons constructing certain buildings) shall be deemed to have been enacted with the word “building” substituted for the word “ dwelling ” in each place where it occurs.]
(3)Paragraph 5(5) and (6)(b) of Schedule 4 and paragraph 7(b) of Schedule 6 (which contain references to paragraph 5(3) of Schedule 4 which should be references to paragraph 5(4) of that Schedule) shall be deemed to have been enacted—
(a)in the case of paragraph 5(5) and (6)(b), with “sub-paragraph (4) above” substituted for “ sub-paragraph (3) above ”, in each case; and
(b)in the case of paragraph 7(b), with “paragraph 5(4)” substituted for “ paragraph 5(3) ”.
(4)In paragraph 9 of Schedule 13 (which contains transitional provisions relating to bad debt relief), the following sub-paragraph shall be deemed to have been enacted instead of sub-paragraph (2) of that paragraph, that is to say—
“(2)Claims for refunds of VAT shall not be made in accordance with section 36 of this Act in relation to—
(a)any supply made before 1st April 1989; or
(b)any supply as respects which a claim is or has been made under section 22 of the 1983 Act.”
(5)In paragraph 13 of Schedule 14 (consequential amendment of the M14Finance Act 1994), the following sub-paragraph shall be deemed to have been enacted instead of sub-paragraph (a) of that paragraph, that is to say—
“(a)in subsection (4) for “25 and 29 of the Finance Act 1985” and “40 of the Value Added Tax Act 1983” there shall be substituted, respectively, “85 and 87 of the Value Added Tax Act 1994” and “83 of that Act”;”.