The Value Added Tax Regulations 1995

[F1 Relevant supplies and purchases U.K.

55C.— (1) Subject to paragraphs (3) [F2 , (5) and (6)], any—

(a) supply of any goods or services to,

(b) acquisition of any goods from another member State by, or

(c) importation of any goods F3 ... by,

a flat-rate trader is a relevant purchase of his.

(2) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, any supply made by a person when he is not a flat-rate trader is not a relevant supply of his.

(3) Subject to [F4 paragraphs (4) and (6)] below, where—

(a) a supply is made to, or made by, a person at a time when he is not a flat-rate trader, and

(b) the operative date for VAT accounting purposes is, by virtue of regulation 57 (cash accounting scheme), a date when he is a flat-rate trader,

that supply is a relevant supply or a relevant purchase of his, as the case may be, if otherwise it would not be by virtue of paragraph (2) above.

(4) Where a person—

(a) is entitled to any credit for input tax in respect of the supply to, or acquisition or importation by, him of capital expenditure goods,

(b) claims any such credit, and

(c) makes a supply of those capital expenditure goods,

the supply made by him is not a relevant supply of his, if otherwise it would be.

(5) Where by virtue of any provision of, or made under, the Act a supply is treated as made by a flat-rate trader, whether to himself or otherwise, that supply is neither a relevant supply nor a relevant purchase of his.

[F5 (6) Where a supply of goods [F6 or services] to which section 55A(6) of the Act applies (customers to account for tax on supplies of goods [F6 or services] of a kind used in missing trader F7 ... fraud) is made to, or made by, a flat rate trader, that supply is neither a relevant purchase nor a relevant supply of his.]]

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 7A inserted (25.4.2002) by The Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/1142), regs. 1(2), 7

F2 Words in reg. 55C(1) substituted (1.6.2007) by The Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No.3) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1418), regs. 1, 5(a)

F3 Words in reg. 55C(1)(c) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Value Added Tax (Miscellaneous Amendments, Northern Ireland Protocol and Savings and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1545), regs. 1, 53(a) (with regs. 109-131); S.I. 2020/1641, reg. 2, Sch.

F4 Words in reg. 55C(3) substituted (1.6.2007) by The Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No.3) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1418), regs. 1, 5(b)

F5 Reg. 55C(6) inserted (1.6.2007) by The Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No.3) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1418), regs. 1, 5(c)

F6 Words in reg. 55C(6) inserted (1.11.2010) by The Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2240), regs. 1, 3(2)

F7 Word in reg. 55C(6) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Value Added Tax (Miscellaneous Amendments, Northern Ireland Protocol and Savings and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1545), regs. 1, 53(b) (with regs. 109-131); S.I. 2020/1641, reg. 2, Sch.