{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-815/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-815/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2012/815",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 815/2012 of 13 September 2012 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EU) No 904/2010, as regards special schemes for non-established taxable persons supplying telecommunications, broadcasting or electronic services to non-taxable persons",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-815",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Submission of VAT return by the taxable person",
  "text": "1. The taxable person shall submit the VAT returns with the details pursuant to Articles 365 and 369g of Directive 2006/112/EC to the Member State of identification using the common electronic message set out in Annex III to this Regulation. Column B of the common electronic message set out in Annex III shall be used for the non-Union scheme and column C of that common electronic message shall be used for the Union scheme.\n2. Where a taxable person makes no supplies of services under the special schemes in any Member State during a return period, a nil VAT return shall be completed. For that purpose, only boxes 1, 2 and 21 of the common electronic message set out in Annex III shall be completed for the Union scheme and boxes 1, 2 and 11 for the non-Union scheme.\n3. The taxable person shall only be required to insert the supplies relating to a Member State of consumption and from a Member State of establishment if supplies of services under the special schemes have been made in or from that Member State respectively within the return period.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2012/815/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:49:13.820391+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}