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

• Citation: S.I. 1988/2108
• Sections: 8

Section 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.

Section 2

The Value Added Tax (General) Regulations 1985 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions.

Section 3

For the heading to Part II there shall be substituted—

REGISTRATION, ENTITLEMENT TO BE REGISTERED AND PROVISIONS FOR SPECIAL CASES

Section 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” ;

(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” ;

(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” .

Section 5

Regulation 8 is revoked.

Section 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

(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.

Section 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,

(b) paragraph (4)(c) is revoked.

Section 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.