Charged VAT on VAT registered order

DamoKen

Hi, I'm self employed, work in IT so have a fair bit of hardware in my home office.

I recently placed an order for some new computer parts with a UK firm. Set up a business account on it which included my vat number. Was a bit surprised then when I found vat was not deducted off the final order, end result being around £400 charged in vat.

Sent the invoice into my accountant and he has said as this is outside of Ireland he can't deduct from my VAT bill and that the company shouldn't have been charged in the first place.

So contacted the company who said their site doesn't support VAT deductions so I need to ring their sales line to place the order that way. No mention however of refunding the vat from the previous order. Nor is any of this mentioned on the site.

Should this be refunded?

Cheers

nompere

While you shouldn't have been charged VAT in the first place, your accountant is wrong to say that he cannot make a claim in Ireland for UK VAT.

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vat/refunds/unregistered-based-in-ireland-faqs.html

So you can either go down that road, or you can get the UK company to re-invoice you without UK VAT, and make a refund to you.

In either event you probably have to charge yourself Irish VAT on the import and recover that Irish VAT in the same return.

DamoKen

nompere wrote: »

While you shouldn't have been charged VAT in the first place, your accountant is wrong to say that he cannot make a claim in Ireland for UK VAT.

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vat/refunds/unregistered-based-in-ireland-faqs.html

So you can either go down that road, or you can get the UK company to re-invoice you without UK VAT, and make a refund to you.

In either event you probably have to charge yourself Irish VAT on the import and recover that Irish VAT in the same return.

Cheers nompere, I've replied to the company along those lines and supplied my VAT number again so they're looking into it. When I originally set up the account it was as a business account so I had input the vat number at that stage. Looks like they've changed the setup on accounts though. They said they weren't aware it was a company account as there's no vat number. Double checked and although my company name etc is still present the section on company details is gone. Previously when setting up accounts you could just select personal or business but the new setup is "Managed Accounts" for a business account.

Anyway the support staff said they'd talk to their accounts dept re a vat refund so hopefully it will be simple enough.

Thanks

srsly78

If the supplier won't sort it out you can fill out an EVR form on ros, the british taxman will then refund you.

DamoKen

Sorry srsly78, just saw your reply. Got a reply last week from the supplier saying it had been passed onto their accounts dept with a view toward a refund. Haven't heard anything since so will leave it til the end of the week and if nothings happened I'll ask for an update.

Cheers