How to apply for UK VAT?

You can apply for the UK VAT tax number yourself, or you can find a professional and reliable institution to apply. Because it is troublesome to apply for it yourself, the latter is generally recommended.

Uk vat registration

1. Information required to register VAT in the UK.

I. Contact information of the applicant

B. Information Form of Individual/Company Overseas VAT Application Service

C. Form 64-8.

Overseas individual applicants are required to provide 1 ID and 2 other documents (please consult customer service for details).

Applicants for overseas companies are required to provide a scanned copy of the company's identity document and a scanned copy of the company's business license (Hong Kong companies are required to provide BR and CR).

It should be noted here that most of the subjects applying for VAT registration in the UK are companies, so when applying for VAT in the name of the company, do all documents have to be signed by the company legal person? At the time of application, only the legal person information is submitted to HMRC together with the company information, bearing in mind that other shareholders of the company may not sign on their behalf.

2. Time required to register VAT in the UK.

Johnson & Johnson company In Britain; P accounting firm, the fastest time to register for value-added tax in Britain is the next day. Generally, the results can be inquired within 3 to 10 working days, depending on the work progress of HMRC and the completeness of the information you submitted.

3. Pay attention after registration.

Under normal circumstances, customers can normally carry out import and sales business in the UK after receiving the VAT tax number. Customers should pay attention to the fact that after obtaining the VAT tax number, they need to complete the quarterly declaration every three months to maintain the normal operation of the VAT tax number. Johnson & Johnson company P account will also remind customers by email and customer service phone before declaring this VAT number every quarter to ensure that customers will not miss any quarterly declaration.

Follow-up application for registration of VAT in the UK

Before introducing you to the specific matters of UK VAT declaration, let me introduce you to what quarterly declaration is. Every three months, each VAT tax number needs to report the import and sales of this quarter to HMRC, and settle all import taxes (IMPORTVAT) and sales taxes (SALESVAT) under this VAT in this quarter. Declare VAT = Quarter = Sales Tax-Import Tax. If the sales tax is greater than the import duty, additional sales tax will be paid, otherwise the excess import duty will be refunded. The most important purpose of quarterly declaration is to pay the sales tax of the current quarter to HMRC.

I. Materials required for declaration

1. Input documents, that is, import VAT tax documents, C79 documents or bills provided by logistics companies;

2. Output documents, that is, bills or sales data issued to guests or monthly bank statements;

3, procurement and sales data, commodity procurement documents;

4. Other expense documents, that is, expense documents generated locally in the UK.

2. What should the customer do when the VAT tax number is about to reach the quarterly report date?

Johnson & Johnson company The UK office of Paccounts will take the initiative to inform the holders of VAT tax numbers by email three working days before the declaration date, informing them of the types of declarations to be made this quarter, and requesting relevant declaration materials. Merchants should provide all relevant information before the specified date to ensure the smooth completion of the declaration.

Third, the calculation formula

Calculate the declared (payable) tax = sales VAT-import VAT.