{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/value-added-tax-input-tax-amendment-no-2-order-1995/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/value-added-tax-input-tax-amendment-no-2-order-1995/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1267",
  "legislation_title": "The Value Added Tax (Input Tax) (Amendment) (No 2) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/value-added-tax-input-tax-amendment-no-2-order-1995",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "For article 4 there shall be substituted—\n“4 (1) Subject to paragraph (4) below, tax charged on the—\n(a) supply;\n(b) acquisition from another member State; or\n(c) importation,\nof any goods such as are described in paragraph (2) below which are supplied to, or acquired from another member State or imported by, a taxable person in the circumstances described in paragraph (3) below shall be excluded from any credit under section 25 of the Act;\n(2) The goods referred to in paragraph (1) above are—\n(a) works of art, antiques and collectors' items\n(b) second-hand goods;\n(3) The circumstances of the supply, acquisition from another member State or importation referred to in paragraph (1) above are—\n(a) a supply on which, by virtue of an Order made under Section 50A of the Act or a corresponding provision of the Manx Act or by virtue of a corresponding provision of the law of another member State, VAT was chargeable on the profit margin;\n(b) (if the goods are a work of art, an antique or a collectors' item) the taxable person imported it himself;\n(c) (if the goods are a work of art) it was supplied to the taxable person by, or acquired from another member State by him from its creator or his successor in title;\n(4) Paragraph (1) above shall only apply to exclude from credit, tax chargeable on a supply of goods to or an acquisition or importation of goods by a taxable person in the circumstances set out in paragraph (3)(b) and (c) above if the taxable person—\n(a) has opted to account for VAT chargeable on his supplies of such goods on the profit margin and\n(b) has not elected to account for VAT chargeable on his supply of the goods by reference to its value, in accordance with the provisions of an Order made under section 50A of the Act.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 50A was inserted by section 24 of the Finance Act 1995 (c. 4)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1267/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:09:30.777389+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."
}