{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/value-added-tax-act-1994/schedule-11/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/value-added-tax-act-1994/schedule-11/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/23",
  "legislation_title": "Value Added Tax Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/value-added-tax-act-1994",
  "path": "schedule/11/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) VAT due from any person shall be recoverable as a debt due to the Crown.\n(2) Where an invoice shows a supply of goods or services as taking place with VAT chargeable on it, there shall be recoverable from the person who issued the invoice an amount equal to that which is shown on the invoice as VAT or, if VAT is not separately shown, to so much of the total amount shown as payable as is to be taken as representing VAT on the supply.\n(3) Sub-paragraph (2) above applies whether or not—\n(a) the invoice is a VAT invoice issued in pursuance of paragraph 2(1) above; or\n(b) the supply shown on the invoice actually takes or has taken place, or the amount shown as VAT, or any amount of VAT, is or was chargeable on the supply; or\n(c) the person issuing the invoice is a taxable person;\nand any sum recoverable from a person under the sub-paragraph shall, if it is in any case VAT be recoverable as such and shall otherwise be recoverable as a debt due to the Crown.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 11 para. 5(4)-(10) repealed (1.7.1997) by 1997 c. 16, 113, Sch. 18 Pt. V(2), Note; S.I. 1997/1433, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "nisi/1999/2789",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2017/32",
      "affecting_title": "Finance (No. 2) Act 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2017/32",
      "affecting_title": "Finance (No. 2) Act 2017"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/23/schedule/11/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:58.510022+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."
}