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Written question asked by Alex Cunningham (Labour) on Friday, 28 August 2020, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 2 September 2020. It was answered by Jesse Norman (Conservative) on Tuesday, 8 September 2020 on behalf of the Treasury.


Consumers: Billing

Question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that businesses invoice consumers with the appropriate VAT.

Answer

The law requires that VAT-registered businesses provide a VAT invoice when they make taxable supplies to other VAT-registered businesses.

Through compliance activity HMRC are able to visit businesses and ensure they are fulfilling their obligations to issue VAT invoices. VAT-registered businesses are required to keep their records for six years.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
81893
Session
2019-21
Subjects
Consumers Billing VAT
Link
View this Written question on www.parliament.uk