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PART 2U.K.Phasing in of border controls: accounting for import VAT

CHAPTER 2U.K.Accounting for import VAT by VAT registered persons making transitional simplified Customs declarations using the EIDR procedure

Application of this ChapterU.K.

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 F1..., and

(b)is registered, or required to be registered, for VAT at the time the person makes that declaration.

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 4 in force at 31.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1641, reg. 2, Sch.

Obligation to account for and pay import VAT in accordance with this ChapterU.K.

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) M1 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.

Commencement Information

I2Reg. 5 in force at 31.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1641, reg. 2, Sch.

Marginal Citations

M1Section 16 was substituted by section 43 of, and paragraph 13 of Schedule 8 to, TCTA 2018 but that substitution is not yet in force.

Relevant importationU.K.

6.  In this Chapter a “relevant importation” is an importation of goods F2... 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 F3..., 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.

Obligation to account for import VAT on VAT returnU.K.

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.

Commencement Information

I4Reg. 7 in force at 31.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1641, reg. 2, Sch.

Application with modifications of the Value Added Tax (Accounting Procedures for Import VAT for VAT Registered Persons and Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019U.K.

8.  The following provisions of the Value Added Tax (Accounting Procedures for Import VAT for VAT Registered Persons and Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 M2 apply for the purposes of this Chapter with, where applicable, the stated modification—

F4(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)[F5regulation 10(2)] (appeals).

Modification of the VAT Regulations where this Chapter appliesU.K.

9.  Where this Chapter applies the following provisions of the VAT Regulations M3 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 M4, ”.

Commencement Information

I6Reg. 9 in force at 31.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1641, reg. 2, Sch.

Marginal Citations

M3S.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.

M4This instrument.