Statutory Instruments
2019 No. 1015
Value Added Tax
The Value Added Tax (Section 55A) (Specified Services) Order 2019
Made
12th June 2019
Laid before the House of Commons
13th June 2019
Coming into force
14th June 2019
The Treasury make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 55A(9) and (14) of the Value Added Tax Act 1994 .
Citation, commencement and effect
1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Value Added Tax (Section 55A) (Specified Services) Order 2019.
(2) This Order comes into force on 14th June 2019 and has effect in relation to supplies of specified services made on or after that date.
Interpretation
2. In this Order—
“ gas ” means gas supplied through the natural gas distribution system;
“a gas or an electricity certificate” is an electronic document which contains information on the source of the energy and its method of production;
“ specified services ” means the services specified in article 4.
Application of section 55A of the Act
3.Section 55A of the Value Added Tax Act 1994(customers to account for tax on supplies of goods or services of a kind used in missing trader ... fraud) applies to services of a description specified in article 4.
Specified services
4. The services referred to in article 3 are gas and electricity certificates.
David Rutley
Jeremy Quin
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury