Section 19 | Missing Trader Intra-Community Fraud | Finance Act 2006 C25

19 Missing trader intra-community fraud

Finance Act 2006 (2006 c 25) | Legislation

Avoidance and fraud

19 Missing trader intra-community fraud

(1) After section 55 of VATA 1994 (customers to account for tax on supplies of gold etc) insert—

“55A Customers to account for tax on supplies of goods of a kind used in missing trader intra-community fraud

(1) Subsection (3) applies if—

(a) a taxable (but not a zero-rated) supply of goods (“the relevant supply”) is made to a person (“the recipient”),

(b) the relevant supply is of goods to which this section applies (see subsection (9)),

(d) the total value of the relevant supply, and of corresponding supplies made to the recipient in the month in which the relevant supply is made, exceeds £1,000 (“the disregarded amount”).

(2) For this purpose a “corresponding supply” means a taxable (but not a zero-rated) supply of goods which—

(a) is a supply of goods to which this section applies, and

(b) is not an excepted supply.

(3) The relevant supply, and the corresponding supplies made to the recipient in the month in which the relevant supply is made, are to be treated for the purposes of Schedule 1—

(a)