2000 No. 804
VALUE ADDED TAX

The Value Added Tax (Increase of Registration Limits) Order 2000

Made
Laid before the House of Commons
Coming into force
The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 and paragraph 9 of Schedule 3 to the Value Added Tax Act 19941, hereby make the following Order:

1.

This Order may be cited as the Value Added Tax (Increase of Registration Limits) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st April 2000.

2.

Schedule 1 to the Value Added Tax Act 1994 shall be amended as follows—

(a)

in paragraphs 1(1)(a), 1(1)(b), 1(2)(a) and 1(2)(b) for “£51,000” there shall be substituted “£52,000”; and

(b)

in paragraphs 1(3), 4(1) and 4(2) for “£49,000” there shall be substituted “£50,000”.

3.

Schedule 3 to the Value Added Tax Act 1994 shall be amended in paragraphs 1(1), 1(2), 2(1)(a), 2(1)(b) and 2(2) by substituting “£52,000” for “£51,000”.

David Jamieson
Jim Dowd
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order increases the VAT registration limits for taxable supplies and for acquisitions from other member States from £51,000 to £52,000, with effect from 1st April 2000.

This Order also increases the limit for cancellation of registration in the case of taxable supplies from £49,000 to £50,000, and in the case of acquisitions from other member States from £51,000 to £52,000, with effect from 1st April 2000.