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The Value Added Tax (Removal of Goods) (Amendment) Order 2012

S.I. 2012/2953 · Made 26 November 2012 · Extends to United Kingdom

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Value Added Tax

Made 26th November 2012

Laid before the House of Commons 27th November 2012

Coming into force 1st January 2013

The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 5(3) of the Value Added Tax Act 1994f1, make the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1994 c. 23.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of the Value Added Tax (Removal of Goods) Order 1992
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencementI1

This Order may be cited as the Value Added Tax (Removal of Goods) (Amendment) Order 2012 and comes into force on 1st January 2013.

2Amendment of the Value Added Tax (Removal of Goods) Order 1992I1

(1)

The Value Added Tax (Removal of Goods) Order 1992f1 is amended as follows.

(2)

In article 4—

(a)

omit paragraph (d);

(b)

for paragraph (e), substitute—

“(e)

where—

(i)

the goods have been removed to another member State for the purpose of delivering them to a person (other than the owner) who is to value or carry out any work on them in that member State; and

(ii)

the owner intends that the goods will be returned to him by their removal to the member State of dispatch upon completion of the valuation or work;”.

(c)

in paragraph (h), for “(d)(iii),”substitute “(e)”;

(d)

omit paragraph (i).

(3)

In article 5, for “(d)” substitute “(e)”.

Signature

Anne Milton

Desmond Swayne

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

26th November 2012

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Value Added Tax (Removal of Goods) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/3111) (“the Order”).

Article 3 amends article 4 of the Order to: (1) remove some redundant provisions and (2) make it clear that, in cases covered by paragraph (e), the goods have to be returned to the owner in the member State of dispatch after they are valued or work is carried out on them in the member State to which they have been removed, as required by Article 6 of Council Directive 95/7/EC of 10 April 1995 amending Directive 77/388/EEC (OJ L 102 p. 18).

A Tax Information and Impact Note covering this instrument will be published on the HMRC website at http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/thelibrary/tiins/htm.