Summary
1.Section 192 introduces Schedule 38 which updates UK VAT law on how the use of business road fuel for private journeys should be taxed. It brings two concessions into law and brings UK law clearly within its European vires. It imposes no additional burdens on taxpayers in doing so and preserves all options previously available to taxpayers. The section establishes an option for taxpayers to account for VAT on the private use of road fuel on a flat rate basis and provides for a table of charges for private use of road fuel, similar to the one that is currently set out in section 57 of the Value Added Tax Act 1994 (VATA), to be set out to this purpose. It takes the annual revalorisation of that table to take account of changes in pump prices of road fuel out of the Budget process. Instead HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) will be required to update the table in the future, outside of the Budget process and to a formula set out in a Treasury Order approved by Parliament.
