VAT – Sutton Coldfield Accountancy

Making Tax Digital – An Overview Of Where We Are

Written by Tony Shackleford on September 22, 2022.

Making Tax Digital (MTD) requires those businesses caught by the MTD rules to record their business transactions on compliant software and to submit quarterly returns to HMRC direct from the software. In...

income tax, Making Tax digital, Making tax digital for income tax, MTD

VAT on Private Tuition

Written by Tony Shackleford on May 3, 2022.

For tutoring costs provided by the private sector to be exempt from VAT, the primary condition is that the subject being tutored is one which is ordinarily taught in school or university. However any...

Vat, VAT Exemption, VAT on tuition

VAT Changes for Sales on Amazon, Ebay etc

Written by Tony Shackleford on August 9, 2021.

From 1 July 2021 platforms such as Amazon and Ebay are responsible for ensuring that VAT is collected on sales of goods on their platforms. In simple terms, this means that when a buyer purchases goods...

Amazon VAT, Ebay VAT

VAT on Dog Food – Why I Need an Accountant.

Written by Tony Shackleford on May 10, 2021.

Unlike solicitors or doctors, anyone can call themselves an accountant. Currently a significant number of accountants providing advice to taxpayers have no qualifications and are not regulated. Unlike...

do I need a tax adviser, Do i need an Accountant, unregulated accountant, VAT on dog food

Postponed VAT Accounting

Written by Tony Shackleford on April 6, 2021.

As a consequence of the UK’s exit from the EU at the start of January 2021, the government introduced a new mechanism for dealing with VAT on the importation of goods into the UK. Under the previous...

Brexit, postponed VAT, Vat

Making Tax Digital Rollout

Written by Tony Shackleford on February 12, 2021.

Making Tax Digital (MTD) is the governments plan for ensuring that businesses record their transactions digitally and submit quarterly information to HMRC. The long term goal of the government is to ...

Making Tax digital, MTD, MTD for Corporation tax, MTD for Income Tax

Construction Industry Scheme VAT Reverse Charge (RC)

Written by Tony Shackleford on February 3, 2021.

The way VAT is charged for supplies made under the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) changes from 1 March 2021. For supplies covered by the change, no VAT should be charged on invoices raised by the...

CIIS and VAT, Reverse charge, VAT reverse charge

VAT following Brexit

Written by Tony Shackleford on November 9, 2020.

Following on from Brexit in January 2020, from 1 January 2021 the UK will end its period of being outside of the EU but following EU trade rules. After this date sales to the EU will termed exports...

Brexit, Distance Sales, Vat

Taxation of double cab pickups and combi vans

Written by Tony Shackleford on August 14, 2020.

In a Court of Appeal (CA) ruling dated 20 July 2020, the court ruled that three types of modified crew cab vehicles are cars rather than vans. This ruling concerns a long running case between Coca Cola...

annual investment allowance, capital allowances, company cars; caompany vans, double cab pickups

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