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Neil Warren is an independent VAT consultant and author who worked for Customs and Excise for 14 years until 1997.

Neil Warren
Independent VAT Consultant
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26th Mar 2020

HMRC horror show: Five learning points from restaurant VAT case

As far as the first tier tribunal case of Chinese restaurant owners Wei Xian and Qian Hong Peng (TC7523) is concerned, the HMRC officer...
Business tax
25th Mar 2020

VAT: Don’t deregister in haste

Many small business owners will be considering if the trading impact of the coronavirus means now is the right time to deregister from VAT...
Business tax
12th Mar 2020

VAT: Zero rate on digital publications

The 2020 Budget produced two reductions in VAT rates: “Tampon tax” The VAT rate on women’s sanitary products will be reduced from 5% to...
HMRC & policy
28th Feb 2020

Court carves turn about for VAT on ski lift passes

One of the most worrying aspects of our VAT system is how two different courts can consider the same facts about a source of income and...
Business tax
20th Feb 2020

VAT: HMRC creates confused mess with craft box

The company concerned was Dodadine Ltd trading as toucanBox ( TC07505 ). It sold three products designed for children aged between three...
Business tax
14th Feb 2020

Club pulls ahead to win on reasonable excuse

In November 2013, Marlow Rowing Club [2020] UKUT0020 decided its new water sports hub building qualified for zero-rating on the builder...
Business tax
13th Feb 2020

VAT: Brexit warning for quality of export documents

A&S Import and Export Trading Ltd ( TC7520 ) has a customer base consisting of Chinese individuals who are keen to buy cosmetics,...
HMRC & policy
5th Feb 2020

VAT and the land supply question

A land supply is usually exempt from VAT within VATA 1994, Sch 9, Group 1, Item 1 as being relevant to “the grant of an interest in or...
Business tax
31st Jan 2020

Dilatory accounting cost Dixons £1.8m

This case requires you to think back to a time when many large payments were made by cheque, and some cheques bounced. The dishonoured...
Business tax
21st Jan 2020

Last-minute VAT query saves £40,000

I receive many VAT queries from accountants in the course of a year and a lot of them are forgotten as soon as I press the send button on...
Business tax
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