So are supermarkets exempt from having to indicate which of their products have VAT or not?
I know some have an asterisk against the item to show that it is vatable, but others such as M&S just have a VAT number and no indication. Does that mean that I can claim VAT on everything on the receipt?
and then see if you can grant it authority. I don't know if you will be able to if you have already granted authority but it is worth trying as it is free. Someone said that their support is good so they might be able to help.
What for Deliveroo? No, it isn't. It was a genuine question, just like the one I asked about Hotels.com a few months ago when I had the same issue about us not being able reclaim VAT on hotel bookings.
Ok, so I asked the employee to go back as far as he could and he sent me one for Gourmet Burger Kitchen which had a restaurant VAT number and showed the VAT on the food.
So Deliveroo have got their act together.
I will ask our employees to only use Deliveroo in future.
In case anyone is interested, I got one of our employees to ask Deliveroo for a VAT invoice for an old order.
The invoice only showed VAT on the Deliveroo charges and showed the VAT to be zero on the actual food.
However, there is a section at the bottom of the invoice where there is space to show the VAT registration number of the restaurant as well as the restaurant net, VAT and gross figures.
So hopefully, if a restaurant is VAT registered, then the details will be there and I will be able to reclaim the VAT.
However, I am not sure if this will be the case as one of the invoices was for food from Burger Burger @ Frankie & Benny's. I would have thougth that they would have to come under the F&B's VAT registration. Unless they are simply using their kitchen.
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Yes, we had a VAT inspection at a previous company and they told us that we had issue deposit invoices for all deposits.
HMRC would be interested to know that they are not paying over the VAT when they receive the deposit.
Thanks. I've asked the employees to ask for a VAT receipt at M&S and they said that they were told that they couldn't have one.
So are supermarkets exempt from having to indicate which of their products have VAT or not?
I know some have an asterisk against the item to show that it is vatable, but others such as M&S just have a VAT number and no indication. Does that mean that I can claim VAT on everything on the receipt?
I get my employees to text the pw to me so I have a record.
I would export the VAT return to Excel and use Vitaltax as it is free:
https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/any-answers/vitaltax-mtd-briging-software-0
and then see if you can grant it authority. I don't know if you will be able to if you have already granted authority but it is worth trying as it is free. Someone said that their support is good so they might be able to help.
Also, it might be an idea to claim before 31.10.19 when we are due to leave the EU as it will probably be more difficult to claim after that date.
You can recover EU VAT from most EU countries quite easily online (although there are minimum limits for claims):
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/vat-refunds-for-uk-businesses-buying-from-ot...
I have done this from Germany and will soon be making a claim from Ireland.
The claim from Germany only took a few weeks and I had no problems getting a refund for hotels etc.
I think that you can only do one claim a year, but all the rules are explained in the above link.
What for Deliveroo? No, it isn't. It was a genuine question, just like the one I asked about Hotels.com a few months ago when I had the same issue about us not being able reclaim VAT on hotel bookings.
Ok, so I asked the employee to go back as far as he could and he sent me one for Gourmet Burger Kitchen which had a restaurant VAT number and showed the VAT on the food.
So Deliveroo have got their act together.
I will ask our employees to only use Deliveroo in future.
In case anyone is interested, I got one of our employees to ask Deliveroo for a VAT invoice for an old order.
The invoice only showed VAT on the Deliveroo charges and showed the VAT to be zero on the actual food.
However, there is a section at the bottom of the invoice where there is space to show the VAT registration number of the restaurant as well as the restaurant net, VAT and gross figures.
So hopefully, if a restaurant is VAT registered, then the details will be there and I will be able to reclaim the VAT.
However, I am not sure if this will be the case as one of the invoices was for food from Burger Burger @ Frankie & Benny's. I would have thougth that they would have to come under the F&B's VAT registration. Unless they are simply using their kitchen.