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VAT liability dispute over £100,000 settled after VAT ADR

VAT liability dispute

HMRC had raised a VAT assessment to our client for in excess of £100,000. The VAT liability of the goods supplied was seen to be standard rated by HMRC which created a VAT liability dispute. Various submissions were made by our team of VAT experts to HMRC disputing the standard rating of the goods in question. It seemed to us that HMRC had become somewhat entrenched in the position taken.

At VAT Alternative Dispute Resolution (VAT ADR), where one of our VAT consultants assisted our client, the facilitator was able to allow the parties to have a full and frank discussion about the facts. HMRC were eventually convinced that the amount of VAT due on the goods in question could be accounted for on the basis outlined by our VAT consultant.  The matter was settled in favour of our client at VAT ADR.

HMRC’s VAT general guide is avaiable https://www.gov.uk/guidance/vat-guide-notice-700

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Meet The Team

Peter Smallwood Headshot vat director

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Peter has assisted a variety of clients including overseas businesses, large multi-national businesses, family businesses, partnerships and sole proprietors. Peter has represented clients at VAT ADR meetings and at the First-Tier Tax Tribunal. Initial negotiations with HMRC can be crucial and as a VAT specialist Peter has been able to make representations to HMRC that have resulted in a number of clients to successfully resolve matters without the need of further action. Peter has been instructed by a number of firms of Solicitor’s to provide expert witness reports in relation to VAT matters.

Experience

Peter has over 25 years’ experience as a leading VAT specialist working in the profession including being a VAT Director at Deloittes. Prior to working within the profession he worked as a Senior VAT Officer at what is now HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). Indeed he remembers the days prior to HMRC when he worked at HM Customs & Excise (HMC&E) and before specialising in VAT his work experience included Excise Duty and Customs Duty matters.

Rachel Davies VAT litigator

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Rachel Davies began her working life in the legal profession. When appropriate Rachel will instruct Counsel on behalf of clients for some of the more complex appeals on which we are instructed. Some appeals where Counsel has been instructed by Rachel have resulted in HMRC conceding the matter only a matter of days before a hearing was due to take place.

She moved on from the legal profession and over 25 years ago began working with the VAT group at Deloitte. Rachel was instrumental in setting up Solve VAT in 2002 and almost the first matter she worked on was what ultimately turned out to be a successful appeal on behalf of a client to the High Court from what was then the VAT and Duties Tribunal.