The First Tier Tribunal (FTT) has found that a company letting apartments as short-term serviced accommodation was subject to VAT. The accommodation was being let in an establishment similar to a hotel.
VAT Cases & News
Summaries of interesting VAT cases for the SME owner.
Purchase invoices describing a supply simply as ‘building works’, along with giving the site address, provided sufficient detail to comply with the VAT regulations and allow input VAT recovery.
HMRC have published Revenue and Customs Brief 5 (2024): 'Tour Operators' Margin Scheme (TOMS) for business-to-business (B2B) wholesale supplies' and confirm these supplies are within the scope of the TOMS.
HMRC have published Revenue and Customs Brief 4 (2024): 'Interpretation of VAT and excise law from 1 January 2024', following post-Brexit legislation including retained EU law..
Agreeing with an earlier Upper Tribunal decision, the Court of Appeal (CoA) found that VAT was due on services provided between two companies that were members of the same VAT group as the services were not invoiced or paid until after the supplier had left the group.
The First Tier Tribunal (FTT) found that irrespective of government funding, the supply of education and vocational training is a business activity for VAT. The supplies were provided in exchange for consideration; they fall within the scope of economic activity.
In the latest instalment of a long-running £1.1m VAT dispute, the First Tier Tribunal has found that Nakd and Organix bars were ‘confectionery’ for VAT purposes.