Registering for VAT

[Xena]

What about free mobile phone sellers, those phones cost them money you know and that includes VAT, yet they give those phones to consumers (end users) for free.

They reclaim the VAT on their purchase.

[BoredBloke]

"This seemed to me to be a very good question. I suppose that's why nobody has answered it."

That is why I don't expect a response. How legal can it be for a company to withold the VAT element of an invoce because my company has not given them a photocopy of my VAT certificate?

[Lucifer Box]

That is why I don't expect a response. How legal can it be for a company to withold the VAT element of an invoce because my company has not given them a photocopy of my VAT certificate?

Tony, just report the agency to HMCR as refusing to pay legally applied VAT. They'll soon cough up after they get a nasty call from a VAT inspector.