Thursday 3 December 2009

New Year brings New VAT Rate

Starting from 1 January 2010 new VAT rates apply, shifting from 15% in 2009 to 17.5% in 2010.


HMRC has provided a detailed guide along with several PDF documents linked from the same web page to help businesses that need to be particularly careful with the shift. These businesses include:

  • Retailers
  • Businesses that issue VAT invoices
  • Businesses operating beyond midnight on 31 December 2009

For each of these categories HMRC provides a separate PDF document available online. There are also certain types of services that require special attention to the changing VAT rates. They include:

  • Services you start before 1 January 2010 but finish afterwards
  • Continuous supplies of services

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