HMRC have announced a further extension to the deferral period for users of the GIANT system (Government Information and NHS Trusts) to be required to join Making Tax Digital (MTD).
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HM Revenue & Customs have this week released various updates that could affect our NHS Clients, these are summarised in the sections below.
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HMRC have recently published updated guidance for some Contracted Out Service headings. Most of the changes are either minor clarifications or amendments to the heading titles. The current published guidance for all Contracted Out Services can be accessed here.
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From the 01 March 2021 HMRC’s domestic VAT reverse charge comes into force for most standard-rated (20%) and reduced-rated (5%) building and construction services.
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Whilst we eagerly await the outcome of the HM Treasury’s ‘VAT and the Public Sector: Reform to VAT Refund Rules’ paper and consultation, (in which a full-VAT refund model is to be explored) a new Treasury Directive has been released expanding the current Contracted-Out-Services (COS) direction
READ MORE HMRC have now officially accepted the decision of the Court of Appeal in the HMRC v Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust case concerning VAT on Salary Sacrifice Lease Cars (SSLS).
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For a number of years HM Treasury have been considering potential reforms to the Contracted-Out-Services – numbered 1 through to 76 – which you will be familiar with from our reports. As a quick recap these rules [Section 41 VATA94] are the mechanism with which NHS and Government Departments (GD) reclaims VAT on certain outsourced services.
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HMRC announced on Friday that the period for which relevant medical supplies, equipment and protective garments brought into the UK free of import duty and VAT has been extended for three months.
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HMRC have updated their guidance today to confirm that all businesses, regardless of annual turnover, will be required to register for Making Tax Digital as of 1st April 2022. This will extend to any businesses which have registered voluntarily for VAT.
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Another bit of good news for the NHS – the Court of Appeal has recently supported the Upper Tribunal’s previous decision that lease cars provided under a salary sacrifice are not a supply for VAT purposes (as a result of the ‘de-supply’ order – “Value Added Tax (Treatment of Transactions) Order 1992 SI 1992/630”).
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