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Use this service to manage your client's details for VAT, if you’re a tax agent.
From 1 January 2023, you’ll get penalty points if you submit a VAT Return late (including nil payment returns). Find out how points work and how to avoid a £200 penalty.
How to account for VAT if you make supplies to your customers, and you pay certain costs that you pass on when you invoice them.
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 how VAT applies to education, research, vocational training, examination services and goods and services connected with these activities.
Find out about the VAT domestic reverse charge procedure which applies to the buying and selling of certain goods and services.
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 if you can get VAT relief if you're having building work done in your home related to your disability.
How to account for VAT on goods and services provided by registered health professionals, including doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists.
Notify HMRC of the specific nature of the land and property supplies you're making using form VAT5L.
You can claim a relief to pay less Customs Duty and VAT if you re-import goods to the UK.
From 1 January 2023, HMRC will charge VAT-registered businesses late payment interest from the first day their payment is overdue until it is paid in full.
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.
Use this form after a business has cancelled its VAT registration to tell HMRC about VAT you need to reclaim. You can also use this form where you are reclaiming VAT and have VAT due on goods sold to satisfy a debt.
Find out about group and divisional VAT registration and the forms you should use to apply.
Find out when and at what rate you need to charge VAT if you supply food and drink for catering or takeaway.
Check when you can use postponed VAT accounting to declare and recover import VAT on the same VAT Return.
Use the online service or VAT431NB form to reclaim VAT, if you're a DIY housebuilder building a new home or charity building.
Check the final amounts of import VAT and duty due online if you make declarations using the Customs Declaration Service.
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