Value Added Tax Act 1994

Notes: U.K.

(1) Item 1 does not include anything included in item 6.

[F1 (1A) Item 1 does not include a supply of services which is preparatory to the carrying out of a transaction falling within that item.]

(2) This Group does not include the supply of a coin or a banknote as a collectors’ piece or as an investment article.

F2 (2A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F3 (2B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3) Item 2 includes the supply of credit by a person, in connection with a supply of goods or services by him, for which a separate charge is made and disclosed to the recipient of the supply of goods or services.

(4) This Group includes any supply by a person carrying on a credit card, charge card or similar payment card operation made in connection with that operation to a person who accepts the card used in the operation when presented to him in payment for goods or services.

[F4 (5) For the purposes of item 5 “intermediary services” consist of bringing together, with a view to the provision of financial services—

(a) persons who are or may be seeking to receive financial services, and

(b) persons who provide financial services,

together with (in the case of financial services falling within item 1, 2, 3 or 4) the performance of work preparatory to the conclusion of contracts for the provision of those financial services, but do not include the supply of any market research, product design, advertising, promotional or similar services or the collection, collation and provision of information in connection with such activities.

(5A) For the purposes of item 5 a person is “acting in an intermediary capacity” wherever he is acting as an intermediary, or one of the intermediaries, between—

(a) a person who provides financial services, and

(b) a person who is or may be seeking to receive financial services

F5 ...

(5B) For the purposes of notes 5 and 5A “financial services” means the carrying out of any transaction falling within item 1, 2, 3, 4 or 6.]

[F6 (6) For the purposes of this Group—

• “authorised open-ended investment company”[F7 , “authorised contractual scheme”] and “authorised unit trust scheme” have the meaning given in section 237(3) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;

• “closed-ended collective investment undertaking” means an undertaking in relation to which the following conditions are satisfied—

  (a)

  its sole object is the investment of capital, raised from the public F8 ...; and

  (b)

  it manages its assets on the principle of spreading investment risk; and

  (c)

  all of its ordinary shares (of each class if there is more than one) or equivalent units are included in the official list maintained by the [F9 Financial Conduct Authority] pursuant to section 74(1) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000; and

  (d)

  all of its ordinary shares (of each class if there is more than one) or equivalent units are admitted to trading on a regulated market situated or operating in the United Kingdom;

• “collective investment scheme” has the meaning given in section 235 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;

• “Gibraltar collective investment scheme” means—

  (a)

  a collective investment scheme to which section 264 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 applies pursuant to an order made under section 409(1)(d) of that Act; F10 ...

  (b)

  F10 ...

• “individually recognised overseas scheme” means a collective investment scheme declared by the [F9 Financial Conduct Authority] to be a recognised scheme pursuant to section 272 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;

• [F11 “pension member” means, in relation to a qualifying pension fund, a person to or in respect of whom retirement benefits are to be paid from the fund;]

• [F11 “qualifying pension fund” means a pension fund in relation to which all of the following conditions are satisfied—

  (a)

  it is solely funded, whether directly or indirectly, by pension members;

  (b)

  the pension members bear the investment risk;

  (c)

  the fund contains the pooled contributions of more than one pension member;

  (d)

  the risk borne by the pension members is spread over a range of investments; and

  (e)

  the fund is established in the United Kingdom F12 ...;]

• F13 ...

• F14 ...

• “regulated market” has the meaning given in section 103(1) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;

• “sub-fund” means a separate part of the property of an umbrella scheme that is pooled separately;

• “umbrella scheme” means a collective investment scheme under which the contributions of the participants in the scheme and the profits or income out of which payments are to be made to them are pooled separately in relation to separate parts of the scheme property.]

[F15 (6A) A collective investment scheme, or sub-fund, that is not for the time being marketed in the United Kingdom is to be treated as not falling within item 9(c) [F16 to (f)] if—

(a) it has never been marketed in the United Kingdom, or

(b) less than 5% of its shares or units are held by, or on behalf of, investors who are in the United Kingdom.]

[F17 (6B) For the purposes of Note (6), a pension fund is funded indirectly where contributions are made by a third party on behalf of a pension member.]

F18 (7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F19 (8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F20 (9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F21 (10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 9 Pt. II Group 5 Note (1A) inserted (10.3.1999) by S.I. 1999/594, art. 5

F2 Sch. 9 Pt. II Group 5 Note (2A) omitted (with application in accordance with art. 1 of the amending S.I.) by virtue of Value Added Tax (Finance) (No.2) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1569), art. 2(d)

F3 Sch. 9 Pt. II Group 5 Note (2B) omitted (with application in accordance with art. 1 of the amending S.I.) by virtue of Value Added Tax (Finance) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1568), art. 2

F4 Sch. 9 Pt. II Group 5 Notes (5)(5A)(5B) substituted (10.3.1999) for Note (5) by S.I. 1999/594, art. 7

F5 Words in Sch. 9 Pt. II Group 5 Note (5A) omitted (with application in accordance with art. 1 of the amending S.I.) by virtue of Value Added Tax (Finance) (No.2) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1569), art. 2(e)

F6 Sch. 9 Pt. II Group 5 Note (6) substituted (1.10.2008) by The Value Added Tax (Finance) (No. 2) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2547), arts. 1(2)(b), 3(4)

F7 Words in Sch. 9 Pt. II Group 15 Note (6) inserted (28.6.2013) by The Value Added Tax (Finance) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1402), arts. 1, 2(3)

F8 Words in Sch. 9 Pt. II Group 5 Note (6) omitted (1.4.2020) by virtue of The Value Added Tax (Finance) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/209), arts. 1, 4(a)

F9 Words in Sch. 9 Pt. II substituted (1.4.2013) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), s. 122(3), Sch. 18 para. 81 (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch.

F10 Words in Sch. 9 Pt. II omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Value Added Tax (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1214), regs. 1, 2(3)(a); S.I. 2020/1641, reg. 2, Sch.

F11 Words in Sch. 9 Pt. II Group 5 Note (6) inserted (1.4.2020) by The Value Added Tax (Finance) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/209), arts. 1, 4(b)

F12 Words in Sch. 9 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Value Added Tax (Miscellaneous Amendments to Acts of Parliament) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1312), regs. 1, 10; S.I. 2020/1641, reg. 2, Sch.

F13 Words in Sch. 9 Pt. II Group 5 Note (6) omitted (22.7.2013) by virtue of The Alternative Investment Fund Managers Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/1773), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 40(b)

F14 Words in Sch. 9 Pt. II omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Value Added Tax (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1214), regs. 1, 2(3)(b); S.I. 2020/1641, reg. 2, Sch.

F15 Sch. 9 Pt. II Group 5 Note (6A) inserted (1.10.2008) by The Value Added Tax (Finance) (No. 2) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2547), arts. 1(2)(b), 3(5)

F16 Words in Sch. 9 Pt. II substituted (31.12.2020) by The Value Added Tax (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1214), regs. 1, 2(4); S.I. 2020/1641, reg. 2, Sch.

F17 Sch. 9 Pt. II Group 5 Note (6B) inserted (1.4.2020) by The Value Added Tax (Finance) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/209), arts. 1, 5

F18 Sch. 9 Pt. II Group 5 Note (7) omitted (with application in accordance with art. 1 of the amending S.I.) by virtue of Value Added Tax (Finance) (No.2) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1569), art. 2(g)

F19 Sch. 9 Pt. II Group 5 Note (8) omitted (1.10.2008) by virtue of The Value Added Tax (Finance) (No. 2) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2547), arts. 1(2)(b), 3(6)

F20 Sch. 9 Pt. II Group 5 Note (9) omitted (with application in accordance with art. 1 of the amending S.I.) by virtue of Value Added Tax (Finance) (No.2) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1569), art. 2(i)

F21 Sch. 9 Pt. II Group 5 Note (10) omitted (1.10.2008) by virtue of The Value Added Tax (Finance) (No. 2) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2547), arts. 1(2)(b), 3(6)