HMRC has admitted to an error in its information about applying the tour operators margin scheme (TOMS), and has now published a correction and details of how businesses who have paid too much VAT from 1 March 2019 can correct the overpayment

Beer drinkers have something to celebrate this weekend when national chain Wetherspoons is cutting the price of a pint in the build up to its proposed UK-wide National Tax Equality Day

Some 120,000 businesses have missed the first deadline for filing under the Making Tax Digital regime, and HMRC has sent out ‘TV licence’-style reminders urging them to do so before next month, but will not be taking enforcement action at present

In our regular Q&A, Vivienne Scott, senior VAT consultant at Croner Taxwise, considers the implications of deregistration with property on hand when an owner has invested heavily in refurbishment

HMRC has bowed to pressure and has announced a one-year delay to 2020 to the introduction of reverse charge VAT in the construction sector, due to be implemented next month, after industry bodies and accounting specialists highlighted concerns about lack of preparation and the impact on businesses

As construction companies face up to yet more tax reporting commitments, Johnston Carmichael’s head of VAT Nigel Roberts sets out the wide implications of the new VAT reverse charge, delayed by one year to 2020 in a government u-turn

A restaurateur behind Glasgow’s Cyan Restaurant has been disqualified for nine years after failing to pay a £195,000 VAT bill.

Government sets aside more funding to help businesses train staff to handle customs regulations after the UK leaves the EU, but business urged to apply early before funds run out

In this month’s VAT updates, Graham Elliott, director at City & Cambridge Consultancy, considers whether the provision of nursery education is non-business, the case of a DIY housebuilder who took HMRC to tribunal after the failure of an Alternative Dispute Resolution process, a new angle on the provision of management services to overseas subsidiaries and the end of the road for the Smart case on input tax for farm subsidies

HMRC is to automatically enrol over 145,000 VAT-registered UK companies into the economic operator registration and identification (EORI) customs system to reduce the risk of Brexit disruption to trade

Businesses need to prepare for the EU’s Four Quick Fixes, the latest attempt to refresh the VAT system for intra-EU movement of goods, effective from January 2020. Rob Janering, associate director at Accordance explains the impact on supplies when call-off stock arrangements and chain transactions take place

In our regular Q&A series, Croner Taxwise VAT adviser Janis Kirkham considers whether a car bought for business use actually falls within the qualifying rules for VAT recoverability

An estimated 120,000 businesses have missed the deadline to sign up for Making Tax Digital for VAT, meaning that technically they should be due a penalty from HMRC

Julie Butler FCA considers the VAT implications when selling a racehorse from shared ownership to applying the business economic activity test, particularly in light of the McMorris case

In our regular Q&A series, Croner Taxwise VAT adviser Priyesh Mistry explains the VAT rules for third parties and whether VAT is charged at the standard rate when invoicing services from a non-UK based supplier