The Value Added Tax Regulations 1995

Adjustment of attribution U.K.

[F1 110.— (1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, in this regulation, in regulations [F2 103B,] 108 and 109 above and in Part XV of these Regulations—

(a) “exempt supplies” includes supplies outside the United Kingdom which would be exempt if made in the United Kingdom, other than supplies of a description falling within subparagraph (b) below; and

(b) “taxable supplies” includies supplies of a description falling within regulation [F3 103] above.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3) below, for the purposes of identifying the use, or intended use, of goods and services in regulations 108 and 109 above and in Part XV of these Regulations—

(a) “exempt supplies” shall be construed as including supplies of a description falling within regulation 103A(1) above, but only to the extent that there is, or would be, no credit for input tax on goods and services under that regulation; and

(b) “taxable supplies” shall be construed as including supplies of a description falling within regulation 103A(1) above, but only to the extent that there is, or would be , credit for input tax on goods and services under that regulation.

(3) Any adjustment under regulations 108 and 109 above shall not cause any more or any less input tax to be credited, as the case may be, in respect of supplies of a description falling within regulation 103A(1) above than would be allowed or required under that regulation.

(4) Subject to [F4 regulations 103 and 103B], where—

(a) regulation 108 or 109 applies,

(b) the use to which the goods or services concerned are put, or to which they are intended to be put, includes the making of any supplies outside the United Kingdom, and

(c) at the time when the taxable person was first required to attribute the input tax he was not required to use a method approved or directed under regulation 102 or that method did not provide expressly for the attribution of input tax attributable to supplies outside the United Kingdom,

the amount for which the taxable person shall be liable to account under regulation 108 or the amount which he is entitled to be paid under regulation 109, as the case may be, shall be calculated by reference to the extent to which the goods or services concerned are used or intended to be used in making taxable supplies, expressed as a proportion of the whole use or intended use.

[F5 (5) In regulations 108 and 109 a reference to—

(a) “exempt supplies” includes a reference to non-business activities that give rise to an amount of non-business VAT;

(b) a method which a taxable person is required to use includes a reference to an apportionment which a taxable person is required to make under section 24(5) of the Act.]]

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 110 substituted (1.1.2000) by The Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/3114), regs. 1, 9

F2 Word in reg. 110(1) substituted (3.12.2004) by The Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/3140), regs. 2(3), 14(1)

F3 Word in reg. 110(1)(b) substituted (3.12.2004) by The Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/3140), regs. 2(3), 14(2)

F4 Words in reg. 110(4) substituted (3.12.2004) by The Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/3140), regs. 2(3), 14(3)

F5 Words in reg. 110(5) inserted (1.1.2011) by The Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/3022), regs. 1(1), 8