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Help! Is Warm Home Discount rebate taxable

jon4100
jon4100 Posts: 7 Forumite
I just received my EDF dual fuel bill (May 2012) and i have been credited £114.29 Warm Home Discount Rebate for 2011/2012 in March. To my understanding this rebate is meant to be £120.00. So I phone EDF and there representative he told me that tax as been deducted from this. but as it been put on as a credit when this money taking off what i have used in electricity bill I will be paying 5% VAT again. anyone else had this problem or is this correct.. THANKS Jon

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  • TIMMY85
    TIMMY85 Posts: 170 Forumite
    This is correct - the £5.71 remaining of the £120 is the VAT, as it is a credit however it has the effect of reducing the VAT you pay on this energy bill.
  • fightyfish
    fightyfish Posts: 51 Forumite
    the bill amount is right - it's not that the payment is taxable but that it for your whole bill including tax, so as stated above 5.71 is put towards your VAT charges.
    I am an employee of British Gas but all views i write are personal and not a reflection of my employer.
  • lithopsian
    lithopsian Posts: 108 Forumite
    There's more than one kind of tax :rotfl:Don't declare it on your self assessment form ;)
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