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What is input tax?

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Value Added Tax
Guidance

What is input tax?

Produced by a Tolley Value Added Tax expert
Value Added Tax
Guidance
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This guidance note provides an overview of what conditions need to be met before a business is entitled to treat VAT incurred as input tax. This note should be read in conjunction with the other notes in the β€˜Claiming input tax’ subtopic.

For a flowchart outlining the procedure for claiming input tax, see the Flowchart ― procedure for claiming input tax.

What is input tax?

The term β€˜input tax’ includes the following:

  1. β€’

    VAT incurred on goods and services that have been supplied to a taxable person

  2. β€’

    for transactions prior to 1 January 2021, VAT incurred on the acquisition of goods from another EU member state (acquisition tax)

  3. β€’

    VAT paid or payable on imported goods (import VAT)

VATA 1994, s 24(1); SI 1995/2518, reg 29(1)

The VAT must be used, or intended to be used, for the purposes

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