In our regular VAT Q&A series, Croner Taxwise senior VAT consultant Hilary Budd considers whether online retailers using online marketplaces, eg, Amazon and eBay, to sell their goods must register for VAT in Germany if they want to continue selling to German customers  

HMRC has issued updated guidance outlining the situations in which businesses and individuals can receive exemption from Making Tax Digital, although Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) is warning that VAT registered individuals and businesses have little time to apply for an exemption

With weeks until Brexit, HMRC has finally issued guidance for importers and exporters on how a postponed VAT accounting system would work in the event of no deal scendario to prevent businesses having to immediately pay UK VAT on imports from the EU

Sarah Kay, tax writer at Croner-i, considers an Upper Tribunal case where care services where taxable in England but exempt in Scotland and Northern Ireland due to different VAT rules and a variance in statutory regulation

HMRC’s decision to allow companies a soft landing without penalties for Making Tax Digital for VAT is welcome but there is still much confusion about the software requirements for companies, says Yvette Nunn CTA, owner partner at Berkeley Associates

In this week’s Q&A Vivienne Scott, senior VAT consultant at Croner Taxwise, raises awareness of some beneficial rules of the cash accounting scheme

The deadlines for Brexit and the overhaul of VAT reporting under Making Tax Digital are uncomfortably close, while the risk of reverting overnight on 29 March to third country status for exports and audits, are just some of the bigger unknowns for business, tax advisers and accountants, says Sara White, editor of Accountancy Daily

HMRC is highlighting changes to the VAT treatment of personal contract purchases (PCP) and similar contracts, which were previously viewed as supplies of goods and a separate supply of credit, but which in some instances are now considered to be a single supply of taxable leasing services

In the event of a no deal Brexit, the government has said it has planned changes to the UK VAT legislation to allow companies to reclaim VAT on supplies of certain financial services made to the EU

In this month’s roundup of significant VAT cases, Graham Elliott CTA (Fellow), VAT specialist at Cambridge Consultancy, analyses fragmentation and VAT registration in Darren Vaughan, deemed taxable supply under schedule 10 in Balhousie and flat rate in Apex Vehicle Management

With only one month to go, there are still 1.17m businesses, out of a total of 1.2m, which are yet to sign up to Making Tax Digital for VAT, although HMRC says 2,000 business are now signing up each day

Notts County football club, currently languishing at the bottom of League Two, has revealed the club has been issued with a winding up petition from HMRC over unpaid tax

UK businesses should ensure they claim the local VAT incurred in the EU by their staff on expenses spending before the March deadline for quitting the EU, or they could face having to deal with the delays and costs of dealing with countries individually, in the event of a ‘no deal’ withdrawal, CIOT is advising

George Bull, senior tax partner and Andy Ilsley, VAT director at RSM assess the latest no deal Brexit VAT guidance from HMRC and warns companies to act now to avoid missing VAT refunds and review MOSS compliance

Companies will not have to file their first digital VAT return under Making Tax Digital for VAT until 1 July at the earliest, although the digital reporting requirement becomes mandatory in April