{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/value-added-tax-regulations-1995/regulation-55JB",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/value-added-tax-regulations-1995/regulation-55JB.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2518",
  "legislation_title": "The Value Added Tax Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/value-added-tax-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/55JB",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "55JB",
  "heading": "Reduced appropriate percentage for newly registered period",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where a flat-rate trader’s start date falls within one year of his EDR.\n(2) Except that this regulation does not apply where—\n(a) the Commissioners received notification of, or otherwise became fully aware of, his liability to be registered more than one year after his EDR, or\n(b) his end date or the first anniversary of his EDR falls before 1st January 2004.\n(3) Subject to regulation 55KA, at any relevant date on or after 1st January 2004 falling within his newly registered period, the Table shall be read as if each percentage specified in the right-hand column were reduced by one.\n(4) A flat-rate trader’s “newly registered period” is the period—\n(a) beginning with the later of—\n(i) his start date; and\n(ii) the day the Commissioners received notification of, or otherwise became fully aware of, his liability to be registered under the Act, and\n(b) ending on the day before the first anniversary of his EDR.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 7A inserted (25.4.2002) by The Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/1142), regs. 1(2), 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 55JB inserted (1.1.2004) by The Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No. 6) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/3220), regs. 1(1)(b), 19(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 55JB(3) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Value Added Tax (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/295), regs. 1(1), 6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2518/regulation/55JB",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:01:01.982800+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."
}