# The Value Added Tax (Payments on Account) Order 1993, Article 14: Calculation of the payments on account

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) If the total amount of tax, ... which the taxable person was liable to pay in respect of the prescribed accounting periods the ends of which fell within any one period of one year—
(a) in the case of a taxable person who falls within article 5 above, ending after the end of his reference period exceeded by 20 per cent. or more the total amount of tax by reference to which his payments on account are currently calculated, or
(b) in the case of a taxable person who falls within article 6 above, ending after the end of the basic period exceeded by 20 per cent. or more the total amount of tax by reference to which his payments on account are currently calculated,
then, with effect from the end of the period of one year first mentioned, but subject to article 15 below, the total amount of tax by reference to which his payments on account fall to be calculated shall be increased accordingly and the amount of each payment on account beginning with the first payment on account which falls to be made after the end of that period of one year shall equal one twenty-fourth of the increased amount.
(2) The first reference to the “total amount of tax” in paragraph (1) includes only tax that is required to be, or has been, accounted for on a return for a prescribed accounting period.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2001/article/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/value-added-tax-payments-on-account-order-1993/article-14
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