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VAT relief available to charities - relief, what you pay, registering, charging VAT
As a charity you do not pay VAT when you buy some goods and services.…
Charities pay VAT on all standard-rated goods and services they buy from…
To get VAT relief you must give your supplier: evidence that you’re a…
As a charity, you must register for VAT with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)…
Find out how to account for VAT schemes on business gifts, samples and promotional schemes.
Find out more information on expenses, payments and benefits that are non-taxable.
Find out the basic rules of VAT, how they apply to clubs and associations, and how to treat VAT on subscriptions and other payments.
Strikes and industrial action - rights and responsibilities for employers, when unions can take action and the effect on employees' pay and working records
Find out what a charity is, how VAT affects charities, how to treat a charity's income for VAT and what VAT reliefs a charity can get on what it buys.
How to use a cost benefit analysis to evaluate your digital health product.
Find out if you can get a refund on goods and services under a VAT Refund Scheme if you’re a charity.
Decide which activities are business or non-business for VAT purposes if you're a local authority or other public body.
Find out about partial exemption special methods for government departments.
Upper Tribunal Tax & Chancery decision of Judge Jeanette Zaman and Judge Ashley Greenbank on July 12th 2024
How to manage and review your charity's connection to a non-charity.
How to object and challenge someone else's trade mark and details of any legal costs involved.
Provides guidance on cost recovery by the Planning Inspectorate and public authorities enabled by Regulation 2A and Regulation 12A of the Infrastructure Planning (Fees) Regulations 2010.
Find out how to operate PAYE if you pay your employees with assets that can be sold or cashed in, like stocks, shares or cryptoassets.
Information for entertainers and musicians, from non-visa national countries, such as EU Member States and the US, visiting the UK for performance and work.
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