Business tax

VAT: detailed information

• From: HM Revenue & Customs, HM Treasury, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, Border Force, Office of Tax Simplification, and The Scottish Government

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Coronavirus (COVID-19)

• Deferral of VAT payments due to coronavirus (COVID-19)
• Changes to notifying an option to tax land and buildings during coronavirus (COVID-19)

Quick links

• Sign in to your VAT online account
• Pay your VAT bill

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• Businesses and charging VAT
• VAT rates on different goods and services
• Exemption and partial exemption from VAT
• VAT registration
• VAT record keeping

VAT returns

• VAT Returns
• Sign in to your VAT online account
• Work out your VAT fuel scale charge
• Correct errors on your VAT Returns

Making Tax Digital

• Making Tax Digital for VAT as a business: step by step
• Making Tax Digital for VAT as an agent: step by step

Different ways to account

• VAT Annual Accounting Scheme
• VAT Cash Accounting Scheme
• VAT Flat Rate Scheme
• VAT margin schemes
• VAT retail schemes

Charging or reclaiming

• Businesses and charging VAT
• VAT: costs or disbursements passed to customers
• VAT: instalments, deposits, credit sales
• Private use and self-supply of goods and services for VAT
• VAT: self-billing arrangements
• The Capital Goods Scheme for VAT
• VAT: lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed goods
• VAT: part-exchanges, barters and set-offs

Paying

• Pay your VAT bill
• VAT payments on account
• VAT repayments
• Reclaiming VAT
• Insolvency and your VAT

Rules for particular trades

• VAT for builders
• Check when you must use the VAT reverse charge for building and construction services
• VAT when you buy a vehicle to sell on
• VAT when you sell a vehicle
• VAT on sales of digital services in the EU (VAT MOSS)

Converting currencies

• Transactions in foreign currencies and VAT
• Exchange rates from HMRC in CSV and XML format

Exporting goods and services

• Exporting and doing business abroad
• Exports, dispatches, supplying goods abroad and charging VAT
• Work out your place of supply of services for VAT rules
• How to report your EU sales for VAT
• EU country codes, VAT numbers and enquiry letters for EC Sales Lists

Importing goods and services

• Starting to import
• Paying VAT on imports, acquisitions and purchases from abroad
• Working out the value of your imports
• Apply to use Simplified Import VAT Accounting
• Claim relief on goods imported then supplied to an EU member state
• Refunds of VAT for UK businesses buying from EU countries
• Importing vehicles into the UK
• Tell HMRC you’re importing multiple vehicles
• Tell HMRC about multiple heavy commercial vehicles brought into the UK

Overseas businesses and UK VAT

• Overseas business selling goods in the UK
• Businesses selling goods in the UK using online marketplaces
• EU businesses buying in the UK and the VAT refund scheme
• Refunds of VAT for non-EU businesses visiting the UK

Notices, forms and helpsheets

• VAT notices in numerical order
• VAT notices in alphabetical order
• VAT forms
• Revenue and Customs Briefs
• VAT manuals for HMRC staff

Help and support

• VAT visits and inspections
• Help and support for VAT
• Help and support for Making Tax Digital