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What's my option?

31 October 2007 / Neil Warren
Issue: 4132 / Categories: Comment & Analysis , VAT
The option to tax rules cause common problems to many businesses. NEIL WARREN considers some of them and their solutions

KEY POINTS

  • The basic principles of the option to tax.
  • The requirements of notification.
  • Mixed-use properties.
  • Overriding the option to tax.
  • Property and transfers of a going concern.

Eighteen years on but it still causes confusion! No I am not talking about the complicated Duckworth-Lewis method of scoring that decides which team wins a cricket match in the event of rain! I am referring to the 'option to tax' rules in the VAT world that allow a business to make an election to HMRC so that certain supplies involving land and buildings become taxable rather than exempt.

In this article I will address some of the common queries that I receive from practitioners in relation to the option to tax. For practitioners it is fair to say that the subject is...

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