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Apply for VAT group registration or amend your details

Use form VAT50-51 to apply to register or amend an existing VAT group.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Published: 13 September 2021
• Last updated: 1 June 2022 — See all updates

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Apply for VAT group registration or amend your details

Ref: VAT50/51

https://public-online.hmrc.gov.uk/lc/content/xfaforms/profiles/forms.html?contentRoot=repository:///Applications/VAT/1.0/VAT5051&template=VAT50-51.xdp

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Details

Use this form to:

• apply to register:
  • 2 or more companies
  • other corporate bodies as one entity with one VAT registration number
• add or remove companies to or from an existing VAT group
• request to disband an existing VAT group

You need to upload the VAT50/51 to your online VAT registration.

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Related forms and guidance

Get more information on how to make changes to an existing VAT group.

Find out about group and divisional registration and which forms you need to use to apply.

Apply to change the representative member of a VAT group using form VAT56.

Authorise an agent to form or amend a VAT group using form VAT53.

Published 13 September 2021
Last updated 1 June 2022 + show all updates

1. 1 June 2022

   The 'who controls the group' section of form VAT50/51 has been updated.

2. 17 September 2021

   A Welsh version of the guide has been added.

3. 13 September 2021

   First published.