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Brexit VAT challenges

31 July 2023 / Neil Warren
Issue: 4899 / Categories: Comment & Analysis , CJEU , ECJ , EU VAT directive , UK VAT , VATA 1994 , VAT
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Brexit challenges

Key points

  • What is the impact of EU VAT law on UK VAT law now that we have left?
  • Consider the case of Yorkshire Agricultural Society regarding the VAT liability of admission fees to the annual Great Yorkshire Show.
  • What is the application of the word ‘primarily’ in VATA 1994 Sch 9 Group 12 item 1(c)?

There is no doubt that Brexit was a big step into the unknown on many fronts. A unique event.

In the VAT world many advisers – me included – breathed a huge sigh of relief when we got to about June 2021 and many of the initial teething problems caused by the final 31 December 2020 departure date – known as IP completion day – had been resolved. The goods were flowing again. Everything is now sorted isn’t it?

However an issue that has always unsettled me since...

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