Value Added Tax Act 1994, Schedule 8, paragraph 1

Items overriding the exceptions

SCHEDULE 8 Zero-rating

[F1208 (1)Items 1 to 7 do not include plans or drawings for industrial, architectural, engineering, commercial or similar purposes.

Cases considering Schedule 8, paragraph 1 3

News Corp UK & Ireland Ltd v Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs

[2023] UKSC 7 · 22 February 2023Interprets

The note formed part of the physical statutory context of Group 3. It did not justify extending Item 2 to electronic services. (see paras [19]-[20]; [52])

Beynon and Partners v Customs and Excise Comrs

[2002] EWCA Civ 1870 · 20 December 2002

Confirms the zero-rating treatment of qualifying goods dispensed to an individual on prescription. The court used the treatment of dispensed drugs as the comparator for personally administered drugs. (see [The VAT Legislation]; [The Appeal])

The Commissioners for HMRC v Boehringer Ingelheim Limited

[2026] UKUT 135 (TCC) · 26 March 2026

Confirms that relevant pharmacy supplies of medicines for home use may be zero-rated. The existence of zero-rated final supplies was relevant to the fiscal-neutrality issue, although the decisive construction came from Article 90 of the Directive (see paras [2], [126], [145]-[151]).

What each judgment says about Schedule 8, paragraph 1 is in the case-law panel in the full Act.

Amendments and notes

1 notes from legislation.gov.uk

Amendments

  1. F1208Sch. 8 Pt. 2 Group 3 Notes (1)(1A) substituted for Sch. 8 Pt. 2 Group 3 Note (1) (1.5.2020) by The Value Added Tax (Extension of Zero-Rating to Electronically Supplied Books etc.) (Coronavirus) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/459), arts. 1, 4