CSE3740 - How the conditions are to be interpreted: Directly Necessary services: How may ‘directly necessary’ services be identified? (guidance effective until 14 August 2018)

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Only supplies of services received from a CSG that can be ‘directly attributable’ (using partial exemption methodology) to the member’s exempt and/or non-business activities will be regarded as ‘directly necessary’ and therefore qualify for the exemption. Expenditure on services received from a CSG that is attributable to both taxable and exempt and/or non-business activities will not qualify as being ‘directly necessary’ as they are NOT linked exclusively to the exempt and/or non-business activities of CSG members and will consequently be subject to their normal VAT treatment.