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Find out how VAT applies to education, research, vocational training, examination services and goods and services connected with these activities.
If your payment is more than 15 days overdue, first and second late payment penalties apply. Find out how to avoid penalties and get help to pay in instalments.
Find out what a charity is, how VAT affects charities, how to treat a charity's income for VAT and what VAT reliefs a charity can get on what it buys.
Find out what to do if you supply goods and services that are exempt from VAT and how these affect the amount of VAT you can reclaim on your purchases.
Use the online tool throughout a check to guide you through each stage and to access the support available.
Find out how to claim input tax on funded pension scheme expenditure for both employers and trustees.
How to account for VAT on goods and services provided by registered health professionals, including doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists.
Use this service to manage your client's details for VAT, if you’re a tax agent.
Find out when and at what rate you need to charge VAT if you supply food and drink for catering or takeaway.
Find out how to account for VAT on entertainment provided by your business.
How to register for the VAT Import One Stop Shop (IOSS) scheme to report and pay VAT due on imports of low value goods to consumers in the EU, Northern Ireland, or both.
Check the final amounts of import VAT and duty due online if you make declarations using the Customs Declaration Service.
Check when you can use postponed VAT accounting to declare and recover import VAT on the same VAT Return.
Check if you can claim relief from VAT if you supply goods or services to a customer, but you are not paid.
Find out how to apply for a duty deferment account so you can delay paying most customs or tax charges when you import goods into Great Britain or release goods from an excise warehouse.
Check the availability and any issues affecting the Check a UK VAT number online service.
Find out if you can get VAT relief if you're having building work done in your home related to your disability.
You can claim a relief to pay less Customs Duty and VAT if you re-import goods to the UK.
Find out how the VAT Capital Goods Scheme (CGS) works, the items covered by the scheme, the rules and how adjustments and disposals are affected.
Find out about group and divisional VAT registration and the forms you should use to apply.
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