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Statutory Instrument 1988 No. 2108

The Value Added Tax (General) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1988

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1988 No. 2108

VALUE ADDED TAX

The Value Added Tax (General) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1988

Made2nd December 1988
Laid before the House of Commons9th December 1988
Coming into force1st January 1989

    The Commissioners of Customs and Excise, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 14(1), 19(2) and 33(2) of, and paragraph 14 of Schedule 1 and paragraphs 2(1), 2(5) and 8(1) of Schedule 7 to, the Value Added Tax Act 1983[1] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:
        1.    These Regulations may be cited as the Value Added Tax (General) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st January 1989.
        2.    The Value Added Tax (General) Regulations 1985[2] shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions.
        3.    For the heading to Part II there shall be substituted—

      REGISTRATION, ENTITLEMENT TO BE REGISTERED AND PROVISIONS FOR SPECIAL CASES

        "
        4.    In regulation 4—
       (a) in paragraph (1) there shall be deleted the words "or who requests to be registered under paragraph 5, 11(1)(b) or 11A of the said Schedule"[3];
       (b) in paragraph (3) for the reference to "paragraph 7, 9 or 10 of Schedule 1" there shall be substituted a reference to "paragraph 7, 7A, 8A, 9 or 10 of Schedule 1"[4];
       (c) for paragraph (4), there shall be substituted—
        "  (4)  Every notification by a registered person under paragraph 7 or 7A of Schedule 1 to the Act shall be made in writing to the Commissioners and shall state:
          (a) the date on which he ceased to make or have the intention of making taxable supplies; or
          (b) where paragraph 7A(b) of Schedule 1 to the Act applies, the date on which he made, or formed the intention of making, taxable supplies.";
       (d) in paragraph (5)(c) there shall be deleted the words "or treat him as liable to be registered under paragraph 11(1)(b) of that Schedule"; and
       (e) in paragraph (6) there shall be deleted the words ", or a request under paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 to the Act"[5].
        5.    Regulation 8 is revoked.
        6.    In regulation 46—
       (a) at the end of paragraph (c) there shall be deleted the word "and";
       (b) at the end of paragraph (d) there shall be deleted the words "continental shelf." and there shall be substituted—
        "continental shelf; and"; and
       (c) after paragraph (d) there shall be added—
          "(e) if the goods were supplied in or imported into the United Kingdom before their export, any tax chargeable on that supply or importation was paid and neither has been, nor will be, refunded.".
      [6]
        7.    In regulation 58—
       (a) for paragraph (4)(b) there shall be substituted—
          "(b) ceases to be entitled to be registered under paragraph 5 or 5A of Schedule 1 to the Act,"; and
       (b) paragraph (4)(c) is revoked.
        8.    In the Schedule, for the forms numbered 1, 3, 4 and 5 there shall be substituted respectively the forms numbered 1, 3, 4 and 5 in the Schedule to these Regulations.



P. G. Wilmott

Commissioner of Customs & Excise
New King's Beam House 22 Upper Ground London SE1 9PJ

2nd December 1988




Notes:

[1] 1983 c. 55.

[2] S.I. 1985/886; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1985/1650, 1986/71, 305, 1987/150, 510, 1916, 1988/2083.

[3] New paragraphs 5, 5A, 7, 7A, 8A, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of Schedule 1 to the Value Added Tax Act 1983 were inserted by section 14 of the Finance Act 1988 (c. 39); regulation 4(1) was amended by S.I. 1987/1916.

[4] Regulation 4(3) was amended by S.I. 1987/1916.

[5] A new regulation 4(6) was substituted by S.I. 1987/1916.

[6] Regulation 46 was amended by S.I. 1987/1916.

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