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Construction Reverse Charge process starts on Monday [March 1st]

by Berthold Bauer on February 25, 2021

After a number of postponements, it is here. The new Reverse Charge for Construction Services will take effect from 1 March 2021.  If you have not already put processes in place, it is not too late to do so, and in the main the HMRC guidance is clear and well written https://www.gov.uk/guidance/vat-reverse-charge-technical-guide

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Berthold BauerConstruction Reverse Charge process starts on Monday [March 1st]
CPD for Public Sector

New Contracted-Out-Services Headings

by Berthold Bauer on November 5, 2020

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

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High Level of Service

A win for NHS Lease Cars

by Berthold Bauer on October 30, 2020

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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High Level of Service

Liquidated Damages: retrospective VAT treatment & corrections

by Berthold Bauer on September 8, 2020

Following EU Tribunal Cases (VAT being a European Tax and largely unaffected by Brexit); HMRC have changed their stance on many forms of compensation payment – and with particular regard to the Construction Industry – how Liquidated Damages are treated.

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Healthcare Tax Consultants

VAT and the Public Sector: Reform to VAT Refund Rules

by Berthold Bauer on September 1, 2020

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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Health Industry

Extension to Import and VAT relief

by Berthold Bauer on July 28, 2020

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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Fully Trained Consultants

HMRC will mandate MTD for all businesses from 1st April 2022

by Berthold Bauer on July 21, 2020

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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Berthold BauerHMRC will mandate MTD for all businesses from 1st April 2022
Healthcare VAT Consultants

VAT on NHS Salary Sacrifice Lease Cars: Court of Appeal rule in favour of the NHS

by Berthold Bauer on July 14, 2020

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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Berthold BauerVAT on NHS Salary Sacrifice Lease Cars: Court of Appeal rule in favour of the NHS

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