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The Value Added Tax (Cars) (Amendment) Order 2002

S.I. 2002/1502 · Made 10 June 2002

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VALUE ADDED TAX

Made 10th June 2002

Laid before the House of Commons 10th June 2002

Coming into force 1st July 2002

The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 50A(1), (5) and (8) of the Value Added Tax Act 1994f1 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1994 c. 23; section 50A was inserted by section 24(1) of the Finance Act 1995 (c. 4).

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Value Added Tax (Cars) (Amendment) Order 2002 and comes into force on 1st July 2002.

(2)

This Order shall not have effect where the taxable person took possession of the motor car pursuant to—

(a)

an assignment which is an article 5 transaction solely by virtue of article 5(4) of the Value Added Tax (Special Provisions) Order 1995f1 or a corresponding provision made under the Manx Act; or

(b)

a transaction forming part of a succession of two or more article 5 transactions, at least one of which was such an assignment,

if the assignment or, where there is a succession of transactions comprising two or more assignments, any of the assignments takes effect before 1st July 2002.

(3)

In this article—

  • “article 5 transaction” means a transaction which is treated as being neither a supply of goods nor a supply of services by virtue of a provision of article 5 of the Value Added Tax (Special Provisions) Order 1995 or a corresponding provision made under the Manx Act;

  • “the Manx Act” means the Value Added Tax Act 1996f2.

2

Article 8 of the Value Added Tax (Cars) Order 1992f1 is amended as follows—

(a)

for sub-paragraphs (c) and (d) of paragraph (2), substitute—

“(c)

a de-supplied transaction, other than an article 5 transaction;

(d)

subject to paragraph (2A) below, an article 5 transaction.”;

(b)

after paragraph (2), insert—

“(2A)

An article 5 transaction does not fall within sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (2) above unless the taxable person has a relevant predecessor in title.”;

(c)

for paragraph (iii) of paragraph (5)(a), substitute—

“(iii)

(where the taxable person took possession of the motor car pursuant to a de-supplied transaction, other than an article 5 transaction) by taking the price he paid pursuant to the transaction;

(iv)

(where the taxable person took possession of the motor car pursuant to an article 5 transaction) by taking the price at which his relevant predecessor in title obtained the motor car;”;

(d)

omit sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph (5); and

(e)

after paragraph (7) add—

“(8)

For the purposes of this article—

  • “article 5 transaction” means a transaction which is a de-supplied transaction by virtue of a provision of article 5 of the Value Added Tax (Special Provisions) Order 1995f2 or a corresponding provision made under the Manx Actf3;

  • “de-supplied transaction” means a transaction which was treated by virtue of any Order made or having effect as if made under section 5(3) of the Act or under the corresponding provisions of the Manx Act as being neither a supply or goods nor a supply of services.

(9)

For the purposes of this article a person is a relevant predecessor in title of a taxable person if—

(a)

he is the person from whom the taxable person took possession of the motor car and himself took possession of it pursuant to a transaction within any of sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) of sub-paragraph (2) above; or

(b)

where the motor car has been the subject of a succession of two or more article 5 transactions (culminating in the article 5 transaction to which the taxable person was a party), he was a party to one of those transactions and himself took possession of the motor car pursuant to a transaction within any of sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) of sub-paragraph (2) above.”.

Signature

Nick Ainger

John Heppell

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

10th June 2002

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, which comes into force on 1st July 2002, amends the Value Added Tax (Cars) Order 1992 (the “principal Order”). It prevents car sales being taxed under the margin scheme following certain assignments of rights in hire purchase or conditional sale agreements, if the assignors could not themselves have used the scheme to sell the cars. By article 1(2), the Order does not affect sales on or after 1st July 2002 if the related assignment took place before that date.

The Order amends article 8 of the principal Order, changing the conditions which must be met in order for taxable persons to be able to opt to use the margin scheme to account for VAT on the sale of used motor cars.

The new concepts of “de-supplied transaction” and “article 5 transaction” are introduced into paragraph (2) of article 8 and defined in a new paragraph (8). A new paragraph (2A) provides an additional condition in respect of article 5 transactions that there is a “relevant predecessor in title”, which is defined in a new paragraph (9).

These changes affect banks and financial institutions selling cars they obtained when they were assigned the rights in a hire purchase or conditional sale agreement, and all businesses selling cars that they obtained as the result of the transfer of a going concern (TOGC). In such cases businesses will only be able to use the margin scheme if the last person to obtain the car other than by way of an assignment of rights or a TOGC (an article 5 transaction) was himself entitled to use the margin scheme on the sale of the car by him. Where there has been a succession of assignments or TOGCs, or a mixture of both, it is therefore the first person in that chain who must have been so entitled. In either case, this other person is the relevant predecessor in title.

The Order also revises article 8(5)(a) of the principal Order so that for the purpose of determining the margin, in the case of cars obtained as a result of an assignment or TOGC, the purchase price to be used will be the price paid for the car by the relevant predecessor in title. There is already a similar rule in respect of TOGCs, which the Order replaces with this wider provision. It also confirms the purchase price to be used for sales of cars obtained as the result of a transaction (other than an assignment or TOGC), which for VAT purposes is treated as neither a supply of goods nor a supply of services (a de-supplied transaction). In this case the person opting to use the margin scheme should use the price he paid when he obtained the car.