Statutory Instruments
2007 No. 1420
VALUE ADDED TAX
The Value Added Tax (Payments on Account) (Amendment) Order 2007
Approved by the House of Commons
Made
10th May 2007
Laid before the House of Commons
10th May 2007
Coming into force
1st June 2007
Whereas the Treasury consider it desirable to make an order under section 28 of the Value Added Tax Act 1994( 1 ) in the interests of the national economy:
Now, therefore, the Treasury make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 28(1), (2), (4) and (5) of the Value Added Tax Act 1994:
1. This Order may be cited as the Value Added Tax (Payments on Account) (Amendment) Order 2007 and comes into force on 1st June 2007.
2. In the Value Added Tax (Payments on Account) Order 1993( 2 ), after article 2 insert—
“ Supplies to which section 55A(6) of the Act applies (customers to account for tax on supplies of a kind used in missing trader intra-community fraud)
2A. Where, on application, a taxable person satisfies the Commissioners that, by reason solely of any amount that he is liable to pay by virtue of section 55A(6) of the Act—
(a) he falls within article 5 or 6 below, or
(b) the amount of each of his payments on account is increased,
then, with effect from the date of the approval by the Commissioners of the application, any amount that he is so liable to pay by virtue of that section shall be disregarded for the purposes of those articles or, as the case may be, the calculation of the amount of each of his payments on account. ” .
Dave Watts
Alan Campbell
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
10th May 2007
S.I. 1993/2001 , amended by 1995/291 , 1996/1196 .