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    HMRC confirmation of VAT change

    Around 5 weeks ago, I sent an email to HMRC to change from FRS to Standard VAT, backdated from 1st April 2017 (as per the guidance from their VAT Helpline).

    I asked for confirmation but have not received anything from HMRC, either via email or post.

    I'll chase up but what happens if I don't receive a confirmation, do I assume I'm on Standard or FRS VAT?

    thanks

    #2
    Your accountant not do this for you?
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      #3
      Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
      Your accountant not do this for you?
      Some of us sort out our VAT ourselves. Helps us keep an eye on the accountant.

      In regards to the OP post use the 1st April.
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        #4
        Originally posted by ContractorBanking View Post
        Around 5 weeks ago, I sent an email to HMRC to change from FRS to Standard VAT, backdated from 1st April 2017 (as per the guidance from their VAT Helpline).

        I asked for confirmation but have not received anything from HMRC, either via email or post.

        I'll chase up but what happens if I don't receive a confirmation, do I assume I'm on Standard or FRS VAT?

        thanks
        I emailed them on 28th March (for 1st April switch) and got a letter response on 9th may (exactly 6 weeks)

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          #5
          You do not need to have a confirmation, so you should operate on whatever you were changing to. You aren't asking their approval to change, you are just telling them that you have changed.

          You just need to have proof that you notified HMRC - see here.

          Originally posted by hmrc
          this is a notification that they are leaving not an application, they do not need to wait for a letter from us to leave the scheme. If they wish to retrospectively withdraw they may do so if they have not already submitted a return. They would submit a return under standard VAT accounting and notify us of the date they left the scheme.
          Last edited by TheFaQQer; 28 June 2017, 15:18.
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            #6
            I also emailed a few weeks back and have heard nothing. I've actually now deregistered so it's redundant anyway, but it would have been good to at least have received a confirmation that the email was received.
            Will work inside IR35. Or for food.

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              #7
              HMRC rarely respond to confirm of the change. However as long as you have written to them to confirm of what you are doing and when this applies from, it will be sufficient.

              Personally, I have not had any responses from them on the returns that I have submitted over the last 2 months, which were on standard rate that we'd switched from the FRS recently.

              We're all ears!

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