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Paying VAT on items for a group of disabled people?
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vikki_louise
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Hello, I wonder if anyone could advise please? If a charity buys lots of disability related items from America to be given as gifts to disabled children, do they have to pay VAT? If it makes any difference the person ordering them happens to be disabled/on DLA.
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What do you mean by 'disability related'.
Neglecting the charity matter.
To be eligible for no VAT due to disability, in the general case, something has to be specifically adapted for the needs of the disabled.
So, for example, a comfy chair wouldn't count - even if for use for the disabled - a wheelchair might.
http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPortalWebApp/channelsPortalWebApp.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=pageImport_ShowContent&id=HMCE_CL_000184&propertyType=document#P47_2887
This is complicated if the person importing the devices is not doing it as a business, because it would normally not be possible to reclaim VAT paid - the VAT has to not be charged at the beginning.
If the shipping service is regarded as the 'importer' - then they are the ones that would have to declare it as exempt, and they are unlikely to do so, if a general delivery service.0 -
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vikki_louise wrote: »Hello, I wonder if anyone could advise please? If a charity buys lots of disability related items from America to be given as gifts to disabled children, do they have to pay VAT? If it makes any difference the person ordering them happens to be disabled/on DLA.
Thanks :beer:
Unless you can be more specific I cannot see you getting a correct answer. You have to look at the two regular disabled rules. Most believe they are "entitled" to zero rate goods, but they don't fit the disabled definition by HMRC as "chronic" or "significantly long term" disabled or "terminal". Illnesses or conditions don't fit the strict sense of what the HMRC term, apart from Diabeatis
On the intrastat when you import certain items you can reclaim VAT once paid. Should you give the items away, you take the hit. Should you supply items at cost, the recipient pays VAT if the qualify again. Over 60's pay 5% VAT on a flat rate.
There are some major changes coming in, where you will have to get a certificate of qualification of zero rate. You will only be able to get the certificate/card that allows you to get goods at zero rate If you get HRC & HRM, you will have to provide the DLA/PIP certificate to the HMRC to get it. So I can see the ballon going up there as its part of the tightening the system that currently is open to rife abuse.
Retailers will only give you goods at zero rate if they can take a copy of the micro card that the HMRC will issue.0
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