Value Added Tax Act 1994

[F1 PART 5 U.K. Rules relating to particular supplies

Textual Amendments

F1 Schs. 9ZA, 9ZB inserted (17.12.2020 for specified purposes, 31.12.2020 in so far as not already in force) by Taxation (Post-transition Period) Act 2020 (c. 26), s. 11(1)(e), Sch. 2 para. 2 (with s. 3(4), Sch. 2 para. 7(7)-(10)) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2020/1545, Pt. 4); S.I. 2020/1642, reg. 9

Supplies of gas, electricity or heat U.K.

27 (1) Paragraph 3(1) (zero-rating of supplies involving removal of goods from Northern Ireland to Great Britain or vice versa) does not apply to a supply of relevant goods. U.K.

(2) In this paragraph “relevant goods” has the meaning it has in section 9A (reverse charge on gas, electricity, heat or cooling).

Time of supply involving both a supply and an acquisition U.K.

28 (1) Where any supply of goods involves both— U.K.

(a) the removal of the goods from Northern Ireland, and

(b) their acquisition in a member State by a person who is liable for VAT on the acquisition in accordance with provisions of the law of that member State corresponding, in relation to that member State, to the provisions of paragraph 2,

subsections (2), (4) to (6) and (10) to (12) of section 6 (time of supply) do not apply and the supply is treated for the purposes of this Act as taking place on whichever is the earlier of the days specified in sub-paragraph (2).

(2) The days mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) are—

(a) the 15th day of the month following that in which the removal in question takes place, and

(b) the day of the issue, in respect of the supply, of a VAT invoice or of an invoice of such other description as the Commissioners may by regulations prescribe.

(3) Section 6(14) has effect as if after “section 55(4)” there were inserted “ or paragraph 28 of Schedule 9ZB ”.

Distance selling between EU and Northern Ireland: place of supply U.K.

29 (1) Goods whose place of supply is not determined under subsection (2) or (3) of section 7 (place of supply of goods) are treated as supplied in the United Kingdom where— U.K.

(a) the supply involves the removal of the goods to Northern Ireland by or under the directions of the person who supplies them,

(b) the supply is a transaction in pursuance of which the goods are acquired in Northern Ireland from a member State by a person who is not a taxable person,

(c) the supplier—

(i) is liable to be registered under Part 9 of Schedule 9ZA, F2 ...

(ii) would be so liable if the supplier were not already registered under this Act or liable to be registered under Schedule 1 or 1A, [F3 or]

[F4 (iii) is registered under the OSS scheme or [F5 a participant in] a non-UK scheme (within the meaning of Schedule 9ZD), and]

(d) the supply is neither a supply of goods consisting in a new means of transport nor anything which is treated as a supply for the purposes of this Act by virtue only of paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 4 or paragraph 30 of Schedule 9ZB.

(2) Goods whose place of supply is not determined under sub-paragraph (1) or subsection (2) or (3) of section 7 and which do not consist in a new means of transport are treated as supplied outside the United Kingdom where—

(a) the supply involves the removal of the goods from Northern Ireland, by or under the directions of the person who supplies them, to a member State,

(b) the person who makes the supply is taxable in a member State, and

(c) provisions of the law of that member State corresponding, in relation to that member State, to the provisions made by sub-paragraph (1) make that person liable to VAT on the supply.

(3) But sub-paragraph (2) does not apply in relation to any supply in a case where the liability mentioned in sub-paragraph (2)(c) depends on the exercise by any person of an option in the United Kingdom corresponding to such an option as is mentioned in paragraph 48(2) [F6 of Schedule 9ZA] unless that person has given, and has not withdrawn, a notification to the Commissioners that the person wishes supplies by that person to be treated as taking place outside the United kingdom where they are supplies in relation to which the other requirements of sub-paragraph (2) are satisfied.

(4) The Commissioners may by regulations provide that a notification for the purposes of sub-paragraph (3) is not to be given or withdrawn except in such circumstances, and in such form and manner, as may be prescribed.

(5) For the purposes of this paragraph—

(a) where goods, in the course of their removal from a place in Northern Ireland to another place in Northern Ireland leave and re-enter Northern Ireland the removal is not to be treated as a removal from or to Northern Ireland, and

(b) where goods, in the course of their removal from a place in Northern Ireland to another place in the United Kingdom leave and re-enter the United Kingdom the removal is not to be treated as a removal from Northern Ireland.

(6) Section 7 has effect as if the references in subsections (5A) to (7) to “the preceding provisions of this section” included sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) of this paragraph.

Textual Amendments

F2 Word in Sch. 9ZB para. 29(1)(c)(i) omitted (10.6.2021 for specified purposes, 1.7.2021 in so far as not already in force) by virtue of Finance Act 2021 (c. 26), s. 95(6)(a), Sch. 18 para. 4(a)(i); S.I. 2021/770, reg. 3

F3 Word in Sch. 9ZB para. 29(1)(c)(ii) substituted (10.6.2021 for specified purposes, 1.7.2021 in so far as not already in force) by Finance Act 2021 (c. 26), s. 95(6)(a), Sch. 18 para. 4(a)(ii); S.I. 2021/770, reg. 3

F4 Sch. 9ZB para. 29(1)(c)(iii) inserted (10.6.2021 for specified purposes, 1.7.2021 in so far as not already in force) by Finance Act 2021 (c. 26), s. 95(6)(a), Sch. 18 para. 4(a)(iii); S.I. 2021/770, reg. 3

F5 Words in Sch. 9ZB para. 29(1)(c)(iii) inserted (1.12.2021) by The Value Added Tax (Distance Selling and Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1165), regs. 1, 6

F6 Words in Sch. 9ZB para. 29(3) inserted (10.6.2021 for specified purposes, 1.7.2021 in so far as not already in force) by Finance Act 2021 (c. 26), s. 95(6)(a), Sch. 18 para. 4(b); S.I. 2021/770, reg. 3

Removal of business assets to be treated as a supply of goods U.K.

30 (1) A person carrying on a business makes a supply of goods where— U.K.

(a) the goods form part of the assets of that business,

(b) they are removed from Northern Ireland or a member State under the directions of that person, and

(c) the removal is in the course or furtherance of that business for the purpose of being taken to a place in—

(i) in the case of goods removed from Northern Ireland, a member State, or

(ii) in the case of goods removed from a member State, to another member State or to Northern Ireland.

(2) Sub-paragraph (1) applies to the removal of goods, whether or not that removal of the goods is, or is connected with, a transaction for consideration.

(3) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply—

(a) to a case falling within paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 4 (matters to be treated as supply of goods or services),

(b) to the removal of goods from Northern Ireland where that removal is in the course of their removal from one part of Northern Ireland to another part of Northern Ireland,

(c) to the removal of goods from a member State where that removal is in the course of their removal from one part of a member State to another part of that member State,

(d) to goods which have been removed from a place outside the member States for entry into the territory of the European Union and are removed from a member State before the time when any Community customs debt in respect of any EU customs duty on their entry into that territory would be incurred,

(e) to goods which have been removed from a place outside the United Kingdom and the member States for entry into Northern Ireland and are removed from Northern Ireland before any duty under section 30A(3) of TCTA 2018 on their entry into Northern Ireland would be incurred, or

(f) to goods which have been removed from Great Britain to Northern Ireland and are removed from Northern Ireland before any duty under section 40A of TCTA 2018 on their entry into Northern Ireland would be incurred.

(4) Sub-paragraph (1) is subject to paragraph 58 of Schedule 9ZA (call-off stock arrangements).

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 9ZB para. 30 excluded (1.8.2021) by S.I. 2010/2925, art. 3 (as amended by The Value Added Tax (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/715), regs. 1, 55(b))

Application of section 43 (company groups) to goods in Northern Ireland U.K.

31 U.K. Subsection (1)(a) of Section 43 (disregard of supplies between members of groups) does not apply to a supply of goods if the goods are in Northern Ireland at the time they are supplied unless the supplier and the recipient each has a business establishment, or some other fixed establishment, in Northern Ireland.

[F7 Partially exempt supplies U.K.

Textual Amendments

F7 Sch. 9ZB para. 31A inserted (31.12.2020) by The Value Added Tax (Miscellaneous Amendments to the Value Added Tax Act 1994 and Revocation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1544), regs. 1, 6; S.I. 2020/1641, reg. 2, Sch.

31A (1) A removal of goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland to which this sub-paragraph applies is to be treated as a taxable supply of goods made in the course or furtherance of a business carried on by the person who removes the goods. U.K.

(2) Sub-paragraph (1) applies to a removal of goods if—

(a) the removal is not (ignoring sub-paragraph (1)) made in the course of a taxable supply,

(b) before the removal the goods were supplied to, or were imported by, the person who removed them (“P”),

(c) P is, at the time of that supply or importation and at the time of the removal, a taxable person,

(d) P has incurred VAT on that supply or importation,

(e) the removal takes place within 12 months of P becoming liable to that VAT,

(f) some, or all, of the VAT incurred on the supply or importation has not been credited as input tax in relation to P because it has, before the removal, been attributed to—

(i) both taxable and exempt supplies, or

(ii) exempt supplies, and

(g) either—

(i) P has not used the goods before their removal, or

(ii) P meets the condition in sub-paragraph (3).

(3) That condition is that P uses the goods, after their removal, exclusively for the purpose of making—

(a) in a case falling within sub-paragraph (2)(f)(i), both taxable and exempt supplies, or

(b) in a case falling within sub-paragraph (2)(f)(ii), exempt supplies.

(4) A supply of goods which is treated as arising under sub-paragraph (1) is zero-rated.

(5) VAT incurred by P on the removal of the goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland (see paragraph 3(4)) is not to be treated as attributable (for the purposes of section 26) to the supply treated as arising under sub-paragraph (1).]

[F8 Movement of own goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland for non-business purposes U.K.

Textual Amendments

F8 Sch. 9ZB para. 31B inserted (1.8.2021) by The Value Added Tax (Miscellaneous Amendments and Repeals) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/714), regs. 1, 4(2) (as amended by S.I. 2021/779, regs. 1, 2)

31B (1) A removal of goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland to which this sub-paragraph applies is to be treated as a taxable supply of goods made in the course or furtherance of a business carried on by the person who removes the goods. U.K.

(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (4), sub-paragraph (1) applies to a removal of goods if—

(a) the removal is not (ignoring sub-paragraph (1)) made in the course or furtherance of a business,

(b) before the removal the goods were supplied to, or imported by, the person who removed them (“P”),

(c) P is, at the time of that supply or importation and at the time of the removal, a taxable person,

(d) P has incurred VAT on that supply or importation,

(e) the removal takes place within 12 months of P becoming liable to that VAT,

(f) some, or all, of the VAT incurred on the supply or importation has not been credited as input tax in relation to P because it has, before the removal, been attributed to—

(i) both business and non-business VAT, or

(ii) non-business VAT, and

(g) P meets the condition in sub-paragraph (3).

(3) That condition is that P uses the goods, after their removal, exclusively for—

(a) in a case falling within sub-paragraph (2)(f)(i), both business and non-business purposes, or

(b) in a case falling within sub-paragraph (2)(f)(ii), non-business purposes.

(4) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply in relation to—

(a) a removal of goods to which paragraph 31A of this Schedule applies, or

(b) an export by a charity to which section 30(5) (as applied by paragraph 8 of this Schedule) applies.

(5) A supply of goods which is treated as arising under sub-paragraph (1) is zero-rated.

(6) VAT incurred by P on the removal of goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland (see paragraph 3(4) of Schedule 9ZB) is not to be treated as attributable (for the purposes of section 26) to the supply treated as arising under sub-paragraph (1).]]