Double Invoice VAT

MKKO2025

Hi, 

Any advice is gratefully received. Hopefully it makes sense

I am having my kerb dropped for my driveway. This started with a problem neighbour, which escalated to me dropping the whole kerb rather than sections. 

I originally paid £1800 with VAT but then resubmitted to take the whole kerb. This came to £2600.

My thoughts was that the new invoice should have only been for the difference between the paid one and new work requested.

The second invoice was for the whole work without any reference to the £1800 paid already. Therefore, I've paid VAT again on the whole job. 

I rang Ringway about this but she was certain that it had been worked out correctly. Any advice?

Penguin_

Sorry are you saying you have paid a total of £4400 to the company?

MattMattMattUK

MKKO2025 said:

Hi, 

Any advice is gratefully received. Hopefully it makes sense

I am having my kerb dropped for my driveway. This started with a problem neighbour, which escalated to me dropping the whole kerb rather than sections. 

I originally paid £1800 with VAT but then resubmitted to take the whole kerb. This came to £2600.

My thoughts was that the new invoice should have only been for the difference between the paid one and new work requested.

I am not sure why you think you have been double charged VAT?

First invoice £1,500.00 ex VAT / £1,800.00 inc VAT, second invoice £2,166.66 ex VAT / £2,600.00 inc VAT, balance partially paid £1,800. remaining balance £800.00. Issuing a second invoice for the additional amount would have made more sense, but in theory provided they had not moved to an new VAT quarter they could cancel and reissue easily enough.

MKKO2025 said:

The second invoice was for the whole work without any reference to the £1800 paid already. Therefore, I've paid VAT again on the whole job. 

That depends what you have actually paid them, £2,600 or £4,400? Even then that would not mean you had paid the VAT twice, just that you had paid it on a larger amount.

MKKO2025 said:

I rang Ringway about this but she was certain that it had been worked out correctly. Any advice?

Hard to tell without further information, what have you actually paid?

MKKO2025

Thanks both for your reply. I've paid £2600 in total so sounds like MattMattMattUK is on the money. I don't think it helped that I was expecting the second invoice to just be for the difference and not all of the work again. 

In really grateful just to sound it out with people who know more than me ☺️