{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/value-added-tax-imported-goods-relief-order-1984/schedule-2/part-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/value-added-tax-imported-goods-relief-order-1984/schedule-2/part-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1984/746",
  "legislation_title": "The Value Added Tax (Imported Goods) Relief Order 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/value-added-tax-imported-goods-relief-order-1984",
  "path": "schedule/2/part/1",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "GROUP 1",
  "heading": "CAPITAL GOODS AND EQUIPMENT ON TRANSFER OF ACTIVITIES",
  "text": "Item No.\n1.Capital goods and equipment imported by a person for the purposes of a business he has ceased to carry on abroad and which he has notified the Commissioners is to be carried on by him in the United Kingdom and concerned exclusively with making taxable supplies.\n2....\nNotes:\n(1) “Capital goods and equipment” includes livestock other than livestock in the possession of dealers, but does not include—\n(a) food of a kind used for human consumption or animal feeding stuffs;\n(b) fuel;\n(c) stocks of raw materials and finished or semi-finished products; or\n(d) any motor vehicle in respect of which deduction of input tax is disallowed by article 4 of the Value Added Tax (Cars) Order 1980.\n(2) For the purposes of item 1, a person is not to be treated as intending to carry on a business in the United Kingdom if such business is to be merged with, or absorbed by, another business already carried on there.\n(3) Item 1 applies only where the goods—\n(a) have been used in the course of the business for at least twelve months before it ceased to be carried on abroad;\n(b) are imported within twelve months of the date on which such business ceased to be carried on abroad, or within such longer period as the Commissioners allow; and\n(c) are appropriate both to the nature and size of the business to be carried on in the United Kingdom.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Group 1 Item 2 revoked (1.1.1993) by The Value Added Tax (Imported Goods) Relief (Amendment) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/3120), arts. 1, 5(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Group 1 Note 4 revoked (1.1.1993) by The Value Added Tax (Imported Goods) Relief (Amendment) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/3120), arts. 1, 5(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Group 1 in force at 1.7.1984, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": ", amended by S.I.1984/33"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1984/746/schedule/2/part/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T17:40:16.229706+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."
}