A company could not recover input VAT incurred in connection with selling shares in its subsidiary. There was a direct and immediate link with an exempt supply.
VAT Cases & News
Summaries of interesting VAT cases for the SME owner.
HMRC have published 'Revenue and Customs Brief 7 (2024): VAT Treatment of Voluntary Carbon Credits' which covers the treatment of voluntary carbon credits from 1 September 2024.
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.
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 that came into effect on 1 January 2024.
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.
