Value-Added Tax Consolidation Act 2010
Acts of the Oireachtas
Source: Acts of the Oireachtas

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paragraphs: — This Act may be cited as the Value-Added Tax Consolidation Act 2010.
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paragraphs: —(1) In this Act—
“accountable person” has the same meaning as it has in Part 2 ;
“accounting year” means a period of 12 months ending on 31 December, but if a taxable person customarily makes up accounts for periods of 12 months ending on another fixed date, then, for such a person, a period of 12 months ending on that fixed date;
“agricultural produce” has the meaning assigned to it by section 4 (1);
“agricultural service” has the meaning assigned to it by section 4 (1);
“ancillary supply” means a supply, forming part of a composite supply, which is not physically and economically dissociable from a principal supply and is capable of being supplied only in the context of the better enjoyment of that principal supply;
“antiques” has the meaning assigned to it by section 87 (1);
“Appeal Commissioners” means persons appointed, in accordance with section 850 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 , to be Appeal Commissioners for the purposes of the Income Tax Acts;
“assignment”, in relation to an interest in immovable goods, means the assignment by a person of that interest in those goods or any part of those goods to another person, except that, if that other person at the time of the assignment retains the reversion on that interest in those goods, that assignment shall be a surrender;
“auction scheme” has the meaning assigned to it by section 89 (1);
“body of persons” means any body politic, corporate or collegiate, and any company, partnership, fraternity, fellowship and society of persons, whether corporate or not corporate;
“building”, in the definition of “development”, includes, in relation to a transaction, any prefabricated or like structure in respect of which the following conditions are satisfied:
(a) the structure—
(i) has a rigid roof and one or more rigid walls and (other than in the case of a structure used for the cultivation of plants) a floor,
(ii) is designed so as to provide for human access to, and free movement in, its interior,
(iii) is for a purpose that does not require that it be mobile or portable, and
(iv) does not have or contain any aids to mobility or portability;
and
(b)(i) neither the agreement in respect of the transaction nor any other agreement between the parties to that agreement contains a provision relating to the rendering of the structure mobile or portable or the movement or re-location of the structure after its erection, and
(ii) the person (in this subparagraph referred to as the “relevant person”) for whom the structure is constructed, extended, altered or reconstructed signs and delivers, at the time of the transaction, to the person who constructed, extended, altered or reconstructed the structure, a declaration of the relevant person’s intention to retain it on the site on which it is at that time located;
“business” means an economic activity, whatever the purpose or results of that activity, and includes any activity of producers, traders or persons supplying services, including mining and agricultural activities and activities of the professions, and the exploitation of tangible or intangible property for the purposes of obtaining income therefrom on a continuing basis;
“calendar quarter” means a period of 3 months beginning on 1 January, 1 April, 1 July or 1 October;
“capital goods” means developed immovable goods and includes refurbishment within the meaning of section 63 (1), and a reference to a capital good includes a reference to any part thereof and the term “capital good” shall be construed accordingly;
“clothing” does not include footwear;
“Collector-General” means the Collector-General appointed under section 851 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 ;
“collectors’ items” has the meaning assigned to it by section 87 (1);
“Community” has the same meaning as it has in Articles 5 to 8 of the VAT Directive, and cognate references shall be construed accordingly;
“completed”, in respect of immovable goods, has the meaning assigned to it by section 94 (1);
“composite supply” means a supply made by a taxable person to a customer comprising 2 or more supplies of goods or services or any combination of those, supplied in conjunction with each other, one of which is a principal supply;
“contractor”, in relation to contract work, means a person who makes or assembles movable goods;
“contract work” means the service of handing over by a contractor to another person of movable goods made or assembled by the contractor from goods entrusted to the contractor by that other person, whether or not the contractor has provided any part of the goods used;
“customs-free airport” means the land which, under the Customs-free Airport Act 1947 , for the time being constitutes the Customs-free airport;
“development”, in relation to any land, means—
(a) the construction, demolition, extension, alteration or reconstruction of any building on the land, or
(b) the carrying out of any engineering or other operation in, on, over or under the land to adapt it for materially altered use;
“electronically supplied services” includes—
(a) website supply, web-hosting, distance maintenance of programmes and equipment,
(b) supply of software and updating of it,
(c) supply of images, text and information, and making databases available,
(d) supply of music, films and games (including games of chance and gambling games) and of political, cultural, artistic, sporting, scientific and entertainment broadcasts and events, and
(e) supply of distance teaching,
and “electronic service” shall be construed accordingly, but where the supplier of a service and his or her customer communicate by means of electronic mail, this shall not of itself mean that the service performed is an electronic service;
“enactment” means an Act or statutory instrument or any part of an Act or statutory instrument;
“excisable products” means the products referred to in section 97 of the Finance Act 2001 ;
“exempted activity” means—
(a) a supply of immovable goods in respect of which, pursuant to sections 94 (2) and 95 (3) and (7)(b), tax is not chargeable, and
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paragraphs: — Except as expressly otherwise provided by this Act, a tax called value-added tax is, subject to and in accordance with this Act and regulations, chargeable, leviable and payable on the following transactions:
(a) the supply for consideration of goods by a taxable person acting in that capacity when the place of supply is the State;
(b) the importation of goods into the State;
(c) the supply for consideration of services by a taxable person acting in that capacity when the place of supply is the State;
(d) the intra-Community acquisition for consideration by an accountable person of goods (other than new means of transport) when the acquisition is made within the State;
(e) the intra-Community acquisition for consideration of new means of transport when the acquisition is made within the State.
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paragraphs: —(1) In this Act—
“agricultural produce”, in relation to a farmer, means goods (other than live greyhounds) produced by the farmer in the course of an Annex VII activity;
“agricultural service”, in relation to a farmer, means any Annex VIII service supplied by the farmer using his or her own labour or that of his or her employees or effected by means of machinery, plant or other equipment normally used for the purposes of an Annex VII activity carried on by the farmer;
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paragraphs: —(1)(a) Subject to paragraph (c), a taxable person who engages in the supply, within the State, of taxable goods or services shall be—
(i) an accountable person, and
(ii) accountable for and liable to pay the tax charged in respect of such supply.
(b) Subject to paragraph (c), in addition, the persons referred to in sections 9 , 10 , 12 , 13 , 15 , 17 (1) and 94 (3) shall be accountable persons.
(c) A person not established in the State who supplies goods in the State only in the circumstances set out in section 10 , or supplies a service in the State only in the circumstances set out in section 13 or 16 (3), shall not be an accountable person.
(2) Where, by virtue of section 6 (1) or 7 , a person has not been an accountable person and a change of circumstances occurs from which it becomes clear that the person is likely to become an accountable person, he or she shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be an accountable person from the beginning of the taxable period commencing next after such change.
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paragraphs: —(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3) and sections 9 , 10 , 12 , 13 , 14 (1) and 17 (1), and notwithstanding section 5 (1), the following persons shall not, unless they otherwise elect and then only during the period for which such election has effect, be accountable persons:
(a) a farmer, for whose supply in any continuous period of 12 months of—
(i) agricultural services (other than insemination services, stock-minding or stock-rearing), the total consideration has not exceeded, and is not likely to exceed, the services threshold,
(ii) goods being bovine semen, the total consideration has not exceeded, and is not likely to exceed, the goods threshold,
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paragraphs: — An accountable person (other than a person to whom section 8 applies) may, in accordance with regulations, be treated for the purposes of this Act as a person who is not an accountable person if the Revenue Commissioners are satisfied that, in the absence of an election under section 6 (1), the person would not be an accountable person.
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paragraphs: —(1) Provision may be made by regulations for the cancellation, at the request of a person, of an election made by the person under this Part and for the payment by him or her to the Revenue Commissioners of such a sum as a condition of cancellation as when added to the net total amount of tax (if any) paid by that person in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 9 in relation to the supply of goods or services (other than services of the kind referred to in paragraph 11 of Schedule 3 ) by the person in the period for which the election had effect is equal to the sum of the amount of tax repaid to him or her during that period in respect of tax borne or paid in relation to the supply of goods and services (other than services of the kind referred to in paragraph 11 of Schedule 3 ) and the tax deductible under Chapter 1 of Part 8 in respect of intra-Community acquisitions made by that person during that period.
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paragraphs: —(1) Where a person engages in the intra-Community acquisition of goods in the State in the course or furtherance of business, he or she shall be—
(a) an accountable person, and
(b) accountable for and liable to pay the tax chargeable.
(2) Subject to subsection (3) and sections 12 (3) and (5), 13 and 17 (1), and notwithstanding subsection (1), a person for whose intra-Community acquisitions of goods (being goods other than new means of transport or goods subject to a duty of excise) the total consideration for which has not exceeded and is not likely to exceed €41,000 in any continuous period of 12 months shall not, unless the person otherwise elects and then only during the period for which such election has effect, be an accountable person.
(3) Where section 5 (1) applies to a person referred to in subsection (2), then subsection (2) shall not apply to the person unless section 6 (1) also applies to him or her.
(4) Subject to subsection (5), a person who is an accountable person by virtue of this section or section 10 and who is a person referred to in section 6 (1)(a) or (b) shall be deemed to be an accountable person only in respect of—
(a) intra-Community acquisitions of goods which are made by him or her, and
(b) any services of the kind referred to in section 12 , 13 or 17 (1) which are received by him or her.
(5) A person may elect that subsection (4) shall not apply to him or her.
(6) Subject to subsection (7), a person who is an accountable person by virtue of this section or section 10 and who is a person referred to in section 17 (2) shall be deemed to be an accountable person only in respect of—
(a) intra-Community acquisitions of goods which are made by him or her,
(b) racehorse training services which are supplied by him or her, and
(c) any services of the kind referred to in section 12 , 13 or 17 (1) which are received by him or her.
(7) A person may elect that subsection (6) shall not apply to him or her.
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paragraphs: —(1) Where a person not established in the State supplies gas through the natural gas distribution system, or electricity, to a recipient in the State, and where the recipient is—
(a) a taxable person who carries on a business in the State, or
(b) a public body,
then that recipient shall, in relation to that supply, be an accountable person or be deemed to be an accountable person and shall be liable to pay the tax chargeable as if the recipient supplied those goods in the course or furtherance of business.
(2) Where a person not established in the State supplies goods in the State which are installed or assembled, with or without a trial run, by or on behalf of the person, and where the recipient of the supply of those goods is—
(a) a taxable person who carries on a business in the State, or
(b) a public body,
then that recipient shall, in relation to that supply, be an accountable person or be deemed to be an accountable person and shall be liable to pay the tax chargeable as if the recipient supplied those goods in the course or furtherance of business.
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paragraphs: —(1) Where a person is an accountable person only because of an intra-Community acquisition of a new means of transport, then the person shall not, unless he or she so elects, be an accountable person for the purposes of this Act except for section 79 (2) or (3).
(2) Where—
(a) a person is an accountable person only because of an intra-Community acquisition of excisable products, and
(b) by virtue of the acquisition, and in accordance with Chapter II of Part II of the Finance Act 1992 , and any other enactment which is to be construed together with that Chapter, the duty of excise on those products is payable in the State,
then the person shall not, unless he or she so elects, be an accountable person for any purposes of this Act except for section 79 (4).
(3) A person who is not established in the State shall, unless the person opts to register in accordance with section 65 , be deemed not to have made an intra-Community acquisition or a supply of goods in the State where the only supplies by him or her in the State are in the circumstances set out in section 23 .
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paragraphs: —(1) Where—
(a) a taxable person who carries on a business in the State, or a person to whom a registration number has been assigned in accordance with section 65 (2), receives a service from a supplier established outside the State, and
(b) the place of supply of the service (as determined in accordance with section 34 (a)) is the State,
then the person is accountable for, and liable to pay, the tax chargeable in the State as if he or she had supplied that service for consideration in the course or furtherance of business.
(2) Where—
(a) a taxable person who carries on a business in the State, or
(b) a public body,
receives a service (other than a service of a kind referred to in section 33 (2)(b) or (c)) from a supplier not established in the State, and the place of supply of the service (as determined in accordance with section 34 (c)) is the State, then the recipient of the service is accountable for, and liable to pay, the tax chargeable in the State as if that recipient had supplied the service for consideration in the course or furtherance of business.
(3) Subject to subsection (4), a person who is an accountable person by virtue of this section or section 13 or 17 (1) and who is a person referred to in section 6 (1)(a) or (b) shall be deemed to be an accountable person only in respect of—
(a) any intra-Community acquisitions of goods which are made by him or her, and
(b) services of the kind referred to in this section or section 13 or 17 (1) which are received by him or her.
(4) A person may elect that subsection (3) shall not apply to him or her.
(5) Subject to subsection (6), a person who is an accountable person by virtue of this section or section 13 or 17 (1) and who is a person referred to in section 17 (2) shall be deemed to be an accountable person only in respect of—
(a) any intra-Community acquisitions of goods which are made by him or her,
(b) racehorse training services which are supplied by him or her, and
(c) services of the kind referred to in this section or section 13 or 17 (1) which are received by him or her.
(6) A person may elect that subsection (5) shall not apply to him or her.
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paragraphs: — Where a person not established in the State supplies a cultural, artistic, entertainment or similar service in the State, then any person (other than a person acting in a private capacity) who receives that service shall—
(a) in relation to it, be an accountable person or be deemed to be an accountable person, and
(b) be liable to pay the tax chargeable as if that accountable person had in fact supplied the service for consideration in the course or furtherance of business,
but, where that service is commissioned or procured by a promoter, agent or other person not being a person acting in a private capacity, then that promoter, agent or person shall be deemed to be the person who receives the service.
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paragraphs: —(1) For the purposes of sections 9 and 10 , where an intra-Community acquisition is effected in the State by a public body, the acquisition shall be deemed to have been effected in the course or furtherance of business.
(2) Notwithstanding section 3 but subject to subsection (3), the State or any public body shall not be treated as a taxable person acting in that capacity in respect of any activity or transaction that is carried out by it in, or is closely linked to, the exercise by the State or that public body of particular rights or powers conferred on it by any enactment, except where—
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paragraphs: —(1) Subject to subsection (2), where the Revenue Commissioners are satisfied that 2 or more persons established in the State, at least one of whom is a taxable person, are closely bound by financial, economic and organisational links and it seems necessary or appropriate to them for the purpose of efficient and effective administration (including collection) of the tax to do so, then, for the purpose of this Act, the Commissioners may, whether following an application on behalf of those persons or otherwise—
(a) by notice in writing (in this section referred to as a “group notification”) to each of those persons deem them to be a single taxable person (in this section referred to as a “group”), and the persons so notified shall then be regarded as being in the group for as long as this subsection applies to them, but section 65 shall apply in respect of each of the members of the group, and—
(i) one of those persons, who shall be notified accordingly by the Commissioners, shall be responsible for complying with this Act in respect of the group, and
(ii) all rights and obligations arising under this Act in respect of the transactions of the group shall be determined accordingly,
and
(b) make each person in the group jointly and severally liable to comply with this Act and regulations (including the provisions requiring the payment of tax) that apply to each of those persons and subject to the penalties under this Act to which they would be subject if each such person were liable to pay to the Commissioners the whole of the tax chargeable, apart from regulations under this section, in respect of each such person.
(2) This section shall not apply in the case of—
(a) the supply of immovable goods by any person in the group to any other person in the group,
(b) the requirement to issue an invoice or other document, in accordance with Chapter 2 of Part 9 , in respect of supplies to persons other than supplies between persons who are jointly and severally liable to comply with this Act in accordance with subsection (1)(b),
(c) the requirement to furnish a statement in accordance with section 82 , or
(d) the transfer of ownership of goods specified in section 20 (2)(c) from any person in the group to any other person in the group, except where, apart from this section, each of the persons whose activities are deemed to be carried on by the group is an accountable person.
(3) The Revenue Commissioners may, by notice in writing to each person in the group, as on and from the date specified in the notice (which date shall not be earlier than the date of issue of the notice) cancel the group notification of the group.
(4) As on and from the date on which the group notification of the group is cancelled under subsection (3), this Act and regulations shall apply to all the persons who were members of the group as if that group notification had not been issued, but without prejudice to the liability of any of those persons for tax or penalties in respect of anything done or not done during the period for which the group notification was in force.
(5) Where—
(a) a person in the group (in this section referred to as the “landlord”) having acquired an interest in, or developed, immovable goods to which section 4 of the repealed enactment applied, whether such acquisition or development occurred before or after the landlord became a person in the group, subsequently surrenders possession of those immovable goods, or any part of them, to another person in the group (in this section referred to as the “occupant”) where the surrender of possession, if it were to a person not in the group, would not constitute a supply of immovable goods in accordance with section 4 of the repealed enactment, and
(b) either the landlord or the occupant subsequently ceases to be a person in the group (in this section referred to as a “cessation”),
then, subject to subsection (6), if the landlord has not exercised the landlord’s option to tax in accordance with section 97 in respect of the letting of those immovable goods at the time of the cessation or does not have a waiver of his or her right to exemption from tax in accordance with section 96 (2) to (5) still in effect at the time of the cessation—
(i) the surrender of possession, or
(ii) if that landlord surrendered possession of those immovable goods more than once to another person in the group, the first such surrender of possession,
shall be deemed to occur when that first such cessation (in this section referred to as the “relevant cessation”) takes place.
(6) For the purposes of subsection (5), where the landlord’s waiver of his or her right to exemption from tax in accordance with section 96 (2) to (5) has been cancelled before a surrender of possession of immovable goods to another person in the group ends, that surrender of possession shall be deemed to take place on the date of the relevant cessation.
(7) The Revenue Commissioners may make regulations as seem to them to be necessary for the purposes of this section.
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paragraphs: —(1)(a) In this subsection—
“NAMA” has the meaning assigned to it by the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009 ;
“NAMA entity” means a person or body of persons to which NAMA is connected within the meaning of section 97 (3);
“recipient”, in relation to a relevant supply, means NAMA and any NAMA entity;
“relevant supply” means a supply of goods being a transfer of ownership of goods effected by a vesting order made in accordance with section 153 of the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009 ;
“supplier”, in relation to a relevant supply, means the chargor referred to in section 153 of the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009 .
(b) Where a relevant supply occurs—
(i) the recipient shall, in relation to that supply, be an accountable person and shall be liable to pay the tax chargeable as if that recipient made that supply in the course or furtherance of business, and
(ii) the supplier shall not be accountable for or liable to pay such tax in relation to that supply.
(2)(a) In this subsection—
“allowance” has the meaning assigned to it by Article 3 of the Directive;
“Directive” means Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 2 (as amended) establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community and amending Council Directive 96/61/EC;
“greenhouse gases” has the meaning assigned to it by Article 3 of the Directive;
“greenhouse gas emission allowances” means allowances to emit greenhouse gases transferable in accordance with the Directive and other units that may be used by operators for compliance with the Directive;
“operator” has the meaning assigned to it by Article 3 of the Directive.
(b) Where a taxable person who carries on a business in the State (in this subsection referred to as a “recipient”) receives greenhouse gas emission allowances from another taxable person who carries on a business in the State, then—
(i) the recipient shall, in relation to that supply, be an accountable person or be deemed to be an accountable person and shall be liable to pay the tax chargeable as if that recipient made that supply in the course or furtherance of business, and
(ii) the person who supplied those greenhouse gas emission allowances shall not be accountable for or liable to pay such tax in respect of that supply.
(3)(a) Paragraph (b) and sections 59 (2)(i) and 66 (4) shall be construed together with Chapter 2 of Part 18 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 .
(b) Where a principal to whom section 531 (1) of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 applies (other than a principal to whom subparagraphs (ii) or (iii) of section 531 (1)(b) of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 applies) receives services consisting of construction operations (as defined in paragraphs (a) to (f) of section 530(1) of that Act) from a subcontractor, then—
(i) that principal shall, in relation to that supply, be an accountable person or be deemed to be an accountable person and shall be liable to pay the tax chargeable as if that principal supplied those services in the course or furtherance of business, and
(ii) the subcontractor shall not be accountable for or liable to pay such tax in respect of that supply.
2 OJ No. L 275, 25.10.2003, p. 32
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paragraphs: —(1)(a) In this subsection—
“premises provider” means a person who owns, occupies or controls land, and references to the premises provider’s land mean the land that is so owned, occupied or controlled;
“relevant office” means the office of the Revenue Commissioners which would normally deal with the examination of the records kept by the premises provider in accordance with Chapter 7 of Part 9 .
(b) Where a premises provider allows, in the course or furtherance of business, a person not established in the State to supply goods for consideration in the course or furtherance of business (in this subsection referred to as a “mobile trader”) on the premises provider’s land for a period of less than 7 consecutive days, then that premises provider shall, not later than 14 days before the day when the mobile trader is allowed to supply goods on that land, furnish to the Revenue Commissioners, at the relevant office, the following particulars:
(i) the name and address of the mobile trader;
(ii) the dates on which the mobile trader intends to supply goods on that land;
(iii) the address of that land; and
(iv) any other information as may be specified in regulations.
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paragraphs: —(1)(a) Notwithstanding sections 5 (1) and 52 (1) but subject to section 6 (1), where a person (in this subsection referred to as the “relevant person”) supplies services which are exempt in accordance with section 52 and paragraph 3(4) of Schedule 1 , then an authorised officer (being an officer of the Revenue Commissioners authorised by them in writing for the purposes of this subsection) shall—
(i) if the officer is satisfied that that supply of those services has created or is likely to create a distortion of competition such as to place at a disadvantage a commercial enterprise which is an accountable person supplying similar-type services, or
(ii) if the officer is satisfied that that supply of those services is managed or administered by or on behalf of another person who has a direct or indirect beneficial interest (either directly or through an intermediary) in the supply of those services,
make a determination in relation to some or all of such supplies as specified in that determination deeming—
(I) the relevant person to be supplying such supplies as specified in that determination in the course or furtherance of business,
(II) the relevant person to be an accountable person in relation to the provision of such supplies as specified in that determination, and
(III) such supplies as specified in that determination to be taxable supplies to which the rate specified in section 46 (1)(c) refers.
(b) Subject to paragraph (c), where a determination is made under paragraph (a), the Revenue Commissioners shall, as soon as may be after the making of the determination, issue a notice in writing of that determination to the relevant person, and such determination shall have effect from such date as may be specified in the notice of that determination.
(c) A determination referred to in paragraph (b) shall have effect no sooner than the start of the next taxable period following that in which the notice referred to in that paragraph was issued in respect of that determination.
(d) Where an authorised officer is satisfied that the conditions that gave rise to the making of a determination under paragraph (a) no longer apply, the officer shall cancel that determination by notice in writing to the relevant person, and that cancellation shall have effect from the start of the next taxable period following that in which the notice issued.
(2) Where any goods or services are provided by a club or other similar organisation in respect of a payment of money by any of its members, then, for the purposes of this Act—
(a) the provision of the goods or services shall be deemed to be a supply by the club or other organisation of the goods or services, as the case may be, in the course or furtherance of business carried on by it, and
(b) the money shall be deemed to be consideration for the supply.
(3)(a) In paragraph (b) “licensee” means—
(i) where the licence is held by the nominee of a body corporate, the body corporate,
(ii) in any other case, the holder of the licence.
(b) The licensee of any premises (being premises in respect of which a licence for the sale of intoxicating liquor on or off those premises was granted)—
(i) shall be deemed to be the promoter of any dance held, during the subsistence of that licence, on those premises, and
(ii) shall be deemed to have received the total money (excluding tax) paid by those admitted to that dance together with any other consideration received or receivable in connection with the dance.
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paragraphs: —(1) In this Act “supply”, in relation to goods, means—
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paragraphs: —(1) For the purposes of this Act, the transfer of ownership of goods pursuant to a contract of the kind referred to in section 19 (1)(c) by the person supplying financial services of the kind specified in paragraph 6(1)(e) of Schedule 1 as part of that contract shall be deemed not to be a supply of the goods.
(2) The transfer of ownership of goods—
(a) as security for a loan or debt,
(b) where the goods are held as security for a loan or debt, upon repayment of the loan or debt, or
(c) being the transfer to an accountable person of a totality of assets, or part thereof, of a business (even if that business or part thereof had ceased trading) where those transferred assets constitute an undertaking or part of an undertaking capable of being operated on an independent basis,
shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, not to be a supply of the goods.
(3) The disposal of goods by an insurer who has taken possession of them from the owner of the goods (in this subsection referred to as the “insured”), in connection with the settlement of a claim under a policy of insurance, being goods—
(a) in relation to the acquisition of which the insured had borne tax, and
(b) which are of such a kind or were used in such circumstances that no part of the tax borne was deductible by the insured,
shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, not to be a supply of the goods.
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paragraphs: — Anything which is a supply of goods by virtue of section 19 (1)(f), (g) or (h) shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to have been effected for consideration in the course or furtherance of the business concerned except—
(a) a gift of goods made in the course or furtherance of the business (otherwise than as one forming part of a series or succession of gifts made to the same person) the cost of which to the donor does not exceed a sum specified for that purpose in regulations, or
(b) the gift, in reasonable quantity, to the actual or potential customer, of industrial samples in a form not ordinarily available for sale to the public.
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paragraphs: —(1) Where an agent or auctioneer makes a sale of goods in accordance with section 19 (1)(b), the transfer of those goods to that agent or auctioneer shall be deemed to be a supply of the goods to the agent or auctioneer at the time that the agent or auctioneer makes that sale.
(2) Where a person (in this subsection and section 20 (3) referred to as the “owner”)—
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paragraphs: —(1) Subject to subsection (2), where a person who is not established in the State makes an intra-Community acquisition of goods in the State and makes a subsequent supply of the goods to an accountable person in the State, then the person to whom the supply is made shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to have made that supply and the intra-Community acquisition shall be disregarded.
(2) Subsection (1) shall apply only where—
(a) the person who is not established in the State has not exercised his or her option to register in accordance with section 65 by virtue of section 11 (3), and
(b) the person to whom the supply is made is registered in accordance with section 65 .
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paragraphs: —(1) In this Act “intra-Community acquisition”, in relation to goods, means the acquisition of—
(a) movable goods (other than new means of transport)—
(i) supplied by—
(I) a person registered for value-added tax in a Member State,
(II) a person obliged to be registered for value-added tax in a Member State,
(III) a person who carries on an exempted activity in a Member State, or
(IV) a flat-rate farmer in a Member State,
(ii) supplied to a person in another Member State (other than an individual who is not a taxable person or who is not entitled to elect to be a taxable person, unless the individual carries on an exempted activity), and
(iii) which have been dispatched or transported from the territory of a Member State to the territory of another Member State as a result of such supply,
or
(b) new means of transport supplied by a person in a Member State to a person in another Member State and which has been dispatched or transported from the territory of a Member State to the territory of another Member State as a result of being so supplied.
(2) An intra-Community acquisition of goods shall be deemed not to occur where the supply of those goods is subject to value-added tax referred to in the VAT Directive in the Member State of dispatch under the provisions implementing Articles 4 and 35, first subparagraph of Article 139(3) and Articles 311 to 341 of that Directive in that Member State.
(3) For the purposes of this section and section 32 —
(a) a supply in the territory of another Member State shall be deemed to have arisen where, under similar circumstances, a supply would have arisen in the State under Chapter 1 or Chapter 1 of Part 4 (including either of those Chapters as read with section 2 (3)),
(b) an activity in another Member State shall be deemed to be an exempted activity where the same activity, if carried out in the State, would be an exempted activity,
(c) a person shall be deemed to be a flat-rate farmer in another Member State where, under similar circumstances, the person would be a flat-rate farmer in the State in accordance with section 86 (1), and
(d) a person shall be deemed to be a taxable person or a person who is entitled to elect to be a taxable person in another Member State where, under similar circumstances, the person would be an accountable person or entitled to elect to be an accountable person in the State in accordance with Part 2 .
(4) Where—
(a) goods are dispatched or transported from outside the Community to a person in the State who is not registered for tax and who is not an individual, and
(b) value-added tax referred to in the VAT Directive is chargeable on the importation of those goods into another Member State,
then, for the purposes of subsection (1), the person shall be deemed to be registered for value-added tax in that other Member State and the goods shall be deemed to have been dispatched or transported from that other Member State.
num: 25
paragraphs: —(1) In this Act “supply”, in relation to a service, means the performance or omission of any act or the toleration of any situation other than—
(a) the supply of goods, and
(b) a transaction specified in section 20 or 22 (2).
num: 26
paragraphs: —(1) For the purposes of this section “accountable person” shall not include a person who is an accountable person solely by virtue of section 9 , 10 , 12 , 13 , 14 (1) or 17 (1).
(2) The transfer of goodwill or other intangible assets of a business, in connection with the transfer of the business or part thereof (even if that business or that part thereof had ceased trading), or in connection with a transfer of ownership of goods in accordance with section 20 (2)(c), by—
(a) an accountable person to a taxable person who carries on a business in the State, or
(b) a person who is not an accountable person to another person,
shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, not to be a supply of services.
num: 27
paragraphs: —(1) For the purposes of this Act, any of the following, if so provided by regulations, and in accordance with those regulations, shall be deemed to be a supply of services by a person for consideration in the course or furtherance of that person’s business:
(a) the use of goods (other than immovable goods) forming part of the assets of a business—
(i) for the private use of an accountable person or of such person’s staff, or
(ii) for any purposes other than those of an accountable person’s business,
where the tax on those goods is wholly or partly deductible;
(b) the supply of services carried out free of charge by an accountable person for such person’s own private use or that of such person’s staff or for any purposes other than those of such person’s business;
(c) the supply of services by an accountable person for the purposes of such person’s business where the tax on such services, were they supplied by another accountable person, would not be wholly deductible.
(2) The use of immovable goods forming part of the assets of a business—
(a) for the private use of an accountable person or of such person’s staff, or
(b) for any purpose other than those of the accountable person’s business,
is a taxable supply of services if—
(i) that use occurs during a period of 20 years following the acquisition or development of those goods by the accountable person, and
(ii) those goods are treated for tax purposes as forming part of the assets of the business at the time of their acquisition or development.
num: 28
paragraphs: —(1) The supply of services through a person (in this subsection referred to as the “agent”) who, while purporting to act on his or her own behalf, concludes agreements in his or her own name but on the instructions of, and for the account of, another person, shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to constitute a supply of the services to and simultaneously by the agent.
(2) Where services are supplied by a person and the person is not legally entitled to recover consideration in respect of or in relation to that supply but moneys are received in respect of or in relation to such supply, then, for the purposes of this Act—
(a) the services in question shall be deemed to have been supplied for consideration, and
(b) the moneys received shall be deemed to be consideration that the person who supplied the services in question became entitled to receive in respect of or in relation to the supply of those services.
(3) Where a person is indemnified under a policy of insurance in respect of any amount payable in respect of services of a barrister or solicitor, those services shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be supplied to, and received by, such person.
num: 29
paragraphs: —(1) For the purposes of this Act, the place where goods are supplied shall be deemed to be—
(a) in the case of goods dispatched or transported and to which section 30 does not apply, subject to subsection (2), the place where the dispatch or transportation to the person to whom the goods are supplied begins,
(b) in the case of goods which are installed or assembled, with or without a trial run, by or on behalf of the supplier, the place where the goods are installed or assembled,
(c) in the case of goods not dispatched or transported, the place where the goods are located at the time of supply,
(d) in the case of goods supplied on board vessels, aircraft or trains during transport, the places of departure and destination of which are within the Community, the place where the transport begins.
(2) Where goods referred to in subsection (1)(a) are dispatched or transported from a place outside the Community, then, for the purposes of this Act, the place of supply by the person who imports those goods and the place of any subsequent supplies shall be deemed to be where the goods are imported.
num: 30
paragraphs: —(1)(a) Notwithstanding section 29 (1)(a) or (b) or (2) but subject to paragraph (b) and subsection (2), for the purposes of this Act, the place where goods are supplied shall be deemed to be, in the case of goods dispatched or transported by or on behalf of the supplier—
(i)(I) from the territory of another Member State, or
(II) from outside the Community through the territory of another Member State into which those goods have been imported,
to a person who is not an accountable person in the State, or
(ii) from the State to a person in another Member State who is not registered for value-added tax,
the place where the goods are when the dispatch or transportation ends.
(b) Paragraph (a) shall not apply to new means of transport.
(2)(a) Subject to paragraph (b), subsection (1)(a) shall not apply to the supply of goods (other than goods subject to a duty of excise) where the total consideration for that supply does not exceed or is not likely to exceed—
(i) in the case of goods to which subsection (1)(a)(i) relates, €35,000 in a calendar year, unless the supplier, in accordance with regulations, elects that subsection (1)(a) shall apply, and
(ii) in the case of goods to which subsection (1)(a)(ii) relates, the amount specified in the Member State in question in accordance with Article 34 of the VAT Directive unless the supplier—
(I) elects that subsection (1)(a) shall apply, and
(II) registers and accounts for value-added tax in that Member State in respect of that supply.
(b) Paragraph (a) shall not apply to new means of transport.
num: 31
paragraphs: —(1)(a) In this subsection “taxable dealer” means an accountable person whose principal business in respect of supplies of gas through the natural gas distribution system, or of electricity, received by that person, is the supply of those goods for consideration in the course or furtherance of business and whose own consumption of those goods is negligible.
(b) For the purposes of this Act, the place where goods are supplied shall be deemed to be—
(i) in the case of the supply of gas through the natural gas distribution system, or of electricity, to a taxable dealer, whether in the State, in another Member State of the Community or outside the Community—
(I) the place where that taxable dealer has established the business concerned or has a fixed establishment for which the goods are supplied,
(II) in the absence of such a place of business or fixed establishment, the place where that taxable dealer has a permanent address or usually resides,
(ii) in the case of the supply of gas through the natural gas distribution system, or of electricity, to a customer other than a taxable dealer, the place where that customer has effective use and consumption of those goods.
(2) Where all or part of the goods referred to in subsection (1)(b)(ii) are not consumed by the customer referred to in that subsection, then, for the purposes of this Act, the goods not so consumed shall be deemed to have been supplied to that customer and used and consumed by that customer—
(a) at the place where the customer has established the business concerned or has a fixed establishment for which the goods are supplied,
(b) in the absence of such a place of business or fixed establishment, at the place where the customer has a permanent address or usually resides.
num: 32
paragraphs: —(1) The place where an intra-Community acquisition of goods occurs shall be deemed to be the place where the goods are when the dispatch or transportation ends.
(2) Without prejudice to subsection (1) but subject to subsection (3), when the person acquiring the goods quotes his or her value-added tax registration number for the purpose of the acquisition, the place where an intra-Community acquisition of goods occurs shall be deemed to be within the territory of the Member State which issued that registration number, unless the person acquiring the goods can establish that such acquisition has been subject to value-added tax referred to in the VAT Directive in accordance with subsection (1).
(3) Subsection (2) shall not apply where—
(a) the person quotes the registration number assigned to him or her in accordance with section 65 for the purpose of making an intra-Community acquisition and the goods are dispatched or transported from the territory of a Member State directly to the territory of another Member State, neither of which is the State,
(b) the person makes a subsequent supply of the goods to a person registered for value-added tax in the Member State where the dispatch or transportation ends,
(c) the person issues an invoice in relation to that supply—
(i) in such form and containing such particulars as would be required in accordance with section 66 (1) if he or she made the supply of the goods in the State to a person registered for value-added tax in another Member State,
(ii) containing an explicit reference to the EC simplified triangulation arrangements, and
(iii) indicating that the recipient of that supply is liable to account for the value-added tax due in that Member State,
and
(d) in accordance with regulations, the person includes a reference to the supply in the statement referred to in section 82 as if it were an intra-Community supply for the purposes of that section.
num: 33
paragraphs: —(1) For the purpose of applying section 34 , every person registered for value-added tax is a taxable person.
(2) In section 34 (c) a supply of services connected with immovable goods includes—
(a) a supply of services by experts or estate agents,
(b) a provision of accommodation in a hotel or guesthouse or in an establishment having a similar function, or in a holiday camp or a site developed for use as a camping site, and
(c) a supply of services involving the preparation and co-ordination of construction work (including a supply of services of architects and of persons who provide on-site supervision).
(3) In section 34 (e) “intra-Community transport of goods” means any transport of goods in respect of which the place of departure and the place of arrival are located within the territories of 2 different Member States.
(4) In section 34 (k) “short-term” means the continuous possession or use of a means of transport throughout a period of not more than 30 days or, if the means of transport is a vessel, not more than 90 days.
(5) The following services are specified for the purpose of section 34 (m):
(a) services that consist of transferring or assigning copyrights, patents, licences, trade marks and similar rights;
(b) advertising services;
(c) the services of consultants, engineers, consultancy firms, lawyers, accountants and other similar services, as well as data processing and the provision of information;
(d) services that consist of obligations to refrain from pursuing or exercising, wholly or partly, a business activity or a right referred to in this subsection;
(e) services that consist of financial transactions (including banking transactions and financial fund management transactions but excluding the provision of safe deposit facilities) or insurance transactions (including reinsurance transactions);
(f) services that consist of supplying staff;
(g) services that consist of hiring out movable tangible property (other than a means of transport);
(h) services that consist of providing access to, or transmission through, natural gas and electricity distribution systems, and providing other services directly linked to those systems;
(i) telecommunications services;
(j) radio and television broadcasting services;
(k) electronically supplied services.
num: 34
paragraphs: — The following rules apply to determine the place where, for the purposes of this Act, services are supplied:
(a) except as provided by paragraphs (c), (d), (g), (i), (j) and (k), the place of supply of services to a taxable person acting as such is—
(i) subject to subparagraph (ii), the place where the person’s business is established,
(ii) if the services are supplied to a fixed establishment of the person located in a place other than the place where the business is established, the place where the fixed establishment is located,
(iii) if there is no such place of business or fixed establishment, the place where the permanent address or usual place of residence of the taxable person who receives the services is located;
(b) except as provided by paragraphs (c) to (n), the place of supply of services to a non-taxable person is—
(i) subject to subparagraph (ii), the place where the supplier’s business is established,
(ii) if the services are supplied from a fixed establishment of the supplier located at a place other than the place where the supplier’s business is established, the place where the fixed establishment is located,
(iii) if there is no such place of business or fixed establishment, the place where the permanent address or usual place of residence of the supplier is located;
(c) if the supply of services is connected with immovable goods, or is the grant of a right to use those goods, the place where those goods are located;
(d) if the supply of services is the provision of passenger transport, the place or the places where the transport takes place;
(e) if the supply of services is the provision of the transport of goods to a non-taxable person and is not an intra-Community transport of goods, the place or places where the transport takes place;
(f) if the supply of services is the provision of intra-Community transport of goods to a non-taxable person, the place of departure of those goods (being the place where the transport of the goods actually begins) irrespective of the distance covered by the means of transport in order to reach the place where the goods are located;
(g) if the supply of services, and of any ancillary services, is connected with cultural, artistic, sporting, scientific, educational, entertainment or similar activities (including fairs and exhibitions and the supply of services of the organisers of such activities), the place where those activities are physically carried out;
(h) if the supply of services is to a non-taxable person and consists of—
(i) ancillary transport activities, such as loading, unloading and handling goods,
(ii) carrying out valuations of, or work on, movable goods, or
(iii) contract work,
the place where those services are physically carried out;
(i) if the supply of services is the provision of restaurant or catering services (other than those referred to in paragraph (j)), the place where those services are physically carried out;
num: 35
paragraphs: —(1) Where, in the case of a supply of services that consists of hiring out movable goods, the place of supply of the services would, apart from this subsection, be a place outside the Community but the services are in effect used and enjoyed in the State, the place of supply of those services is nevertheless taken to be the State for the purposes of this Act.
(2) Where, in the case of a supply of services that consists of hiring out a means of transport, the place of supply of the services would, apart from this subsection, be the State but those services are in effect used and enjoyed outside the Community, the place of supply of those services is nevertheless taken to be outside the Community for the purposes of this Act.
(3) Where, in the case of a supply of services that consists of the provision to a non-taxable person of a telecommunications service, a radio or a television broadcasting service or a telephone card, the place of supply of the service or card would, apart from this subsection, be outside the Community but the service is in effect used and enjoyed in the State, the place of supply is nevertheless taken to be the State for the purposes of this Act.
(4) Where, in the case of a supply of services that consists of the provision by a taxable person established in the State of a telecommunications service or a telephone card to a non-taxable person, the place of supply of the service or card would, apart from this subsection, be outside the Community but the service is in effect used and enjoyed in the State, the place of supply is taken to be the State for the purposes of this Act.
(5) Where, in the case of a supply of services that consists of the provision to a non-taxable person of financial services (including banking services and financial fund management services but not including the provision of safe deposit facilities) or insurance services (including reinsurance), the place of supply of the services would, apart from this subsection, be a place outside the Community but the services are in effect used and enjoyed in the State, the place of supply is nevertheless taken to be the State for the purposes of this Act.
(6) Where money transfer services provided to a person in the State are in effect used and enjoyed in the State, the place of supply of intermediary services that are provided in respect of, or in relation to, those services to a principal established outside the Community, is taken to be the State for the purposes of this Act.
num: 36
paragraphs: — In this Chapter—
“open market price”, in relation to—
(a) the supply of any goods or services (other than an interest in immovable goods which is not a freehold interest), or
(b) the intra-Community acquisition of goods,
means the price (excluding tax) which the goods might reasonably be expected to fetch or which might reasonably be expected to be charged for the services if sold in the open market at the time of the event in question;
“open market value”, in relation to a supply of goods or services—
(a) subject to paragraph (b), means the total consideration (excluding tax) that a customer, at a marketing stage which is the same as the stage at which the supply of the goods or services takes place, would reasonably be expected to pay to a supplier at arm’s length under conditions of fair competition for a comparable supply of such goods or services,
(b) if there is no comparable supply of goods or services, means—
(i) in respect of goods, an amount that is not less than the purchase price of the goods or of similar goods or, in the absence of a purchase price, the cost price, determined at the time of supply,
(ii) in respect of services, an amount that is not less than the full cost to the supplier of providing the service.
num: 37
paragraphs: —(1) The amount on which tax is chargeable by virtue of section 3 (a) or (c) shall, subject to this Chapter, be the total consideration which the person supplying goods or services becomes entitled to receive in respect of or in relation to such supply of goods or services, including all taxes, commissions, costs and charges whatsoever, but not including value-added tax chargeable in respect of that supply.
(2) The amount on which tax is chargeable on the intra-Community acquisition of goods by virtue of section 3 (d) or (e) shall, subject to this Chapter, be the total consideration, including all taxes, commissions, costs and charges whatsoever, but not including value-added tax chargeable in respect of that acquisition.
(3) Where the consideration referred to in subsection (1) or (2) does not consist of or does not consist wholly of an amount of money, the amount on which tax is chargeable shall be the total amount of money which might reasonably be expected to be charged if the consideration consisted entirely of an amount of money equal to the open market price.
(4) In relation to the tax chargeable by virtue of section 3 (a), (c), (d) or (e), where an amount is expressed in a currency other than the currency of the State—
(a) unless paragraph (b) applies, the exchange rate to be used shall be the latest selling rate recorded by the Central Bank of Ireland for the currency in question at the time the tax becomes due,
(b) if there is an agreement with the Revenue Commissioners for a method to be used in determining the exchange rate, then—
(i) the exchange rate to be used shall be the exchange rate obtained using that method, and
(ii) the method so agreed shall be applied for all transactions where an amount is expressed in a currency other than that of the State until the agreement to use such method is withdrawn by the Revenue Commissioners.
num: 38
paragraphs: —(1) The Revenue Commissioners may, where they consider it necessary or appropriate to do so to ensure the correct collection of the tax, make a determination that the amount on which tax is chargeable on a supply of goods or services is the open market value of that supply, if the Commissioners are satisfied—
(a) that the actual consideration in relation to that supply is—
(i) lower than the open market value of that supply where the recipient of that supply—
(I) has no entitlement to deduct tax under Chapter 1 of Part 8 ,
(II) is not entitled to deduct all of the tax chargeable on that supply, or
(III) is a flat-rate farmer,
(ii) lower than the open market value of that supply, being an exempted activity, where the supplier—
(I) engages in the course or furtherance of business in non-deductible supplies or activities within the meaning of section 61 (1), or
(II) is a flat-rate farmer,
or
(iii) higher than the open market value where the supplier—
(I) engages in the course or furtherance of business in non-deductible supplies or activities within the meaning of section 61 (1), or
(II) is a flat-rate farmer,
and
(b) that—
(i) the supplier and the recipient of that supply are persons connected by financial or legal ties, being persons who are party to any agreement, understanding, promise or undertaking whether express or implied and whether or not enforceable or intended to be enforceable by legal proceedings, or
(ii) either the supplier or the recipient of that supply exercises control (within the meaning assigned to it by section 4 (2)) over the other.
(2) For the purposes of this Act, a value determined in accordance with this section shall be deemed to be the true value of the supply to which it applies.
(3) The Revenue Commissioners may make regulations as seem to them to be necessary for the purposes of this section.
(4) An inspector of taxes, or such other officer as the Revenue Commissioners may authorise for the purpose, may make a determination under this section.
num: 39
paragraphs: —(1) Where the consideration actually received in relation to the supply of any goods or services exceeds the amount that the person supplying the goods or services was entitled to receive, the amount on which tax is chargeable shall be the amount actually received (excluding tax chargeable in respect of the supply).
(2) Subject to subsection (3), where, in a case not coming within section 38 , the consideration actually received in relation to the supply of any goods or services is less than the amount on which tax is chargeable or no consideration is actually received, such relief may be given by repayment or otherwise in respect of the deficiency as may be provided by regulations.
(3) Subsection (2) shall not apply in the case of the letting of immovable goods which is a taxable supply of goods in accordance with section 95 .
(4) Where, following the issue of an invoice by an accountable person in respect of a supply of goods or services, the accountable person allows a reduction or discount in the amount of the consideration due in respect of that supply, the relief referred to in subsection (2) shall not be given until he or she issues the credit note required in accordance with section 67 (1)(b) in respect of that reduction or discount.
num: 40
paragraphs: — Where—
(a) an intra-Community acquisition is deemed to have taken place in the territory of another Member State in accordance with section 32 (1),
(b) the intra-Community acquisition has been subject to value-added tax, referred to in the VAT Directive, in that other Member State, and
(c) the intra-Community acquisition is also deemed to have taken place in the State in accordance with section 32 (2),
then the consideration for the intra-Community acquisition to which paragraph (c) relates shall be reduced to nil.
num: 41
paragraphs: —(1) Where the value of movable goods (other than goods of a kind specified in paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 ) provided under an agreement for the supply of services exceeds two-thirds of the total consideration under the agreement for the provision of those goods and the supply of the services (other than transport services in relation to them)—
(a) the consideration shall be deemed to be referable solely to the supply of the goods, and
(b) tax shall be charged at the appropriate rate or rates specified in Chapter 1 of Part 6 on the basis of any apportionment of the total consideration made in accordance with subsection (2).
(2) Where goods of different kinds are provided under an agreement of the kind referred to in subsection (1), the amount of the consideration referable to the supply of goods of each kind shall be ascertained for the purposes of that subsection by apportioning the total consideration in proportion to the value of the goods of each kind provided.
(3) This section shall also apply to an agreement for the supply of immovable goods and, accordingly, the references in subsections (1) and (2) to an agreement for the supply of services shall be deemed to include a reference to such an agreement.
(4) This section does not apply in respect of a supply of services to which section 16 (3) applies.
num: 42
paragraphs: —(1)(a) Subject to paragraph (c), the amount on which tax is chargeable in relation to a supply of goods referred to in section 19 (1)(e)(ii), (f) or (g) or a supply of services by virtue of regulations made for the purposes of section 27 (1)(a) or (b) shall be the cost (excluding tax) of the goods to the person supplying or acquiring the goods or the cost (excluding tax) of supplying the services, as the case may be.
(b) The amount on which tax is chargeable in relation to a supply of services by virtue of regulations made for the purposes of section 27 (1)(c) shall be the open market price of the services supplied.
(c) Where the supply referred to in paragraph (a) is a supply of immovable goods (in this paragraph referred to as the “appropriation”), the cost to the person making the appropriation shall include an amount equal to the amount on which tax was chargeable on the supply of those goods to that person, being the last supply of those goods to that person which preceded the appropriation.
(2)(a) The amount on which tax is chargeable in relation to the supply of goods referred to in section 19 (1)(h) shall be the cost of the goods to the person making the supply or, in the absence of such a cost, the cost price of similar goods in the State.
(b) Where an intra-Community acquisition occurs in the State following a supply of goods in another Member State which, if such supply were carried out in similar circumstances in the State would be a supply of goods in accordance with section 19 (1)(h), then the amount on which tax is chargeable in respect of that intra-Community acquisition shall be the cost to the person making the supply in that Member State or, in the absence of a cost to that person, the cost price of similar goods in that other Member State.
(3) The amount on which tax is chargeable in relation to services for which the recipient is, by virtue of section 12 , 13 or 17 (1), liable for the tax chargeable, shall be the consideration for which the services were in fact supplied to him or her.
num: 43
paragraphs: —(1) In this section “redeemable value” means the amount stated on a coupon, stamp, telephone card, token or voucher or, where an amount is not so stated, the value expressed in terms of money for which a coupon, stamp, telephone card, token or voucher can be used as consideration (or part consideration) for a supply of goods or services.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), where a right to receive goods or services for the redeemable value of any coupon, stamp, telephone card, token or voucher is granted for a consideration, the consideration shall be disregarded for the purposes of this Act except to the extent (if any) that it exceeds that redeemable value.
(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), where—
(a) a supplier—
(i) supplies a coupon, stamp, telephone card, token or voucher, which has a redeemable value, to a person who acquires it in the course or furtherance of business with a view to resale, and
(ii) promises to subsequently accept that coupon, stamp, telephone card, token or voucher at its redeemable value in full or part payment of the price of goods or services,
and
(b) a person who acquires that coupon, stamp, telephone card, token or voucher whether from the supplier referred to in paragraph (a) or from any other person in the course or furtherance of business, supplies it for consideration in the course or furtherance of business,
then, in the case of each such supply, the consideration received shall not be disregarded for the purposes of this Act and when such coupon, stamp, telephone card, token or voucher is used in payment or part payment of the price of goods or services, its redeemable value shall be disregarded for the purposes of section 37 (3).
(4) Provision may be made by regulations for the purpose of determining the amount on which tax is chargeable in relation to one or more of the following:
(a) supplies of coupons, stamps, tokens or vouchers when supplied as things in action (not being coupons, stamps, tokens or vouchers specified in subsection (2));
(b) subject to subsection (3) or (5), supplies of goods or services wholly or partly in exchange for coupons, stamps, telephone cards, tokens or vouchers of a kind specified in subsection (2) or paragraph (a),
and such regulations may, in the case of supplies referred to in paragraph (a), provide that the amount on which tax is chargeable shall be nil.
(5)(a) Where a supplier sells a voucher to a buyer at a discount and promises to subsequently accept that voucher at its face value in full or part payment of the price of goods purchased by a customer who was not the buyer of the voucher, and who does not normally know the actual price at which the voucher was sold by the supplier, the consideration represented by the voucher shall, subject to regulations (if any), be the sum actually received by the supplier on the sale of the voucher.
(b) Paragraph (a) is for the purpose of giving further effect to Article 73 of the VAT Directive, and shall be construed accordingly.
num: 44
paragraphs: —(1) The amount on which tax is chargeable in relation to a supply of services referred to in section 27 (2) in any taxable period shall be an amount equal to one sixth of one twentieth of the cost of the immovable goods used to provide those services, being—
(a) the amount on which tax was chargeable to the person making the supply in respect of that person’s acquisition or development of the immovable goods referred to in section 27 (2), and
(b) in the case where section 20 (2)(c) applied to the acquisition of the immovable goods, the amount on which tax would have been chargeable but for the application of that section,
adjusted to correctly reflect the proportion of the use of the goods in that period.
(2) The Revenue Commissioners may make regulations specifying methods which may be used—
(a) to identify the proportion which correctly reflects the extent to which immovable goods are used for the purposes referred to in section 27 (2), and
(b) to calculate the relevant taxable amount or amounts.
num: 45
paragraphs: —(1) Where, after the making of an agreement for the supply of goods or services and before the date on which under section 74 (1) or (2), as may be appropriate, any tax in respect of the transaction falls due, there is a change in the amount of tax chargeable on the supply in question, then, in the absence of agreement to the contrary, there shall be added to or deducted from the total amount of the consideration and any tax stated separately under the agreement an amount equal to the amount of the change in the tax chargeable.
(2) References in subsection (1) to a change in the amount of tax chargeable on the supply of goods or services include references to a change to or from a situation in which no tax is being charged on the supply.
(3) Subject to subsection (4), where, in relation to a supply of goods or services by an accountable person, the person issues an invoice in which the tax chargeable in respect of the transaction is stated separately, then, for the purpose of its recovery, the tax so stated shall be deemed to be part of the consideration for the transaction and shall be recoverable accordingly by the person.
(4) Where the invoice referred to in subsection (3) is issued pursuant to section 66 (1), subsection (3) shall not apply unless the invoice is in the form and contains the particulars specified by regulations.
num: 46
paragraphs: —(1) Tax shall be charged, in relation to the supply of taxable goods or services, the intra-Community acquisition of goods and the importation of goods, at whichever of the following rates is appropriate in any particular case:
(a) 21 per cent of the amount on which tax is chargeable other than in relation to goods or services on which tax is chargeable at any of the rates specified in paragraphs (b), (c) and (d);
num: 47
paragraphs: —(1) Subject to section 41 —
(a) in the case of a composite supply, the tax chargeable on the total consideration which the accountable person is entitled to receive for that composite supply shall be at the rate specified in section 46 (1) which is appropriate to the principal supply, but if that principal supply is an exempted activity, tax shall not be chargeable in respect of that composite supply,
(b) in the case of a multiple supply—
(i) the tax chargeable on each individual supply in that multiple supply shall be at the rate specified in section 46 (1) appropriate to each such individual supply, and
(ii) in order to ascertain the taxable amount referable to each individual supply for the purpose of applying the appropriate rate thereto, the total consideration which the accountable person is entitled to receive in respect of that multiple supply shall be apportioned between those individual supplies in a way that correctly reflects the ratio which the value of each such individual supply bears to the total consideration for that multiple supply.
(2) In the case where a person acquires a composite supply or a multiple supply by means of an intra-Community acquisition, this section shall apply to that acquisition.
(3) The Revenue Commissioners may make regulations as necessary specifying—
(a) the circumstances or conditions under which a supply may or may not be treated as an ancillary supply, a composite supply, an individual supply, a multiple supply or a principal supply,
(b) the methods of apportionment which may be applied for the purposes of subsections (1) and (2),
(c) a relatively small amount, or an element of a supply, which may be disregarded for the purposes of applying this section.
num: 48
paragraphs: —(1) Notwithstanding section 46 (1), tax shall be charged at the rate specified in section 46 (1)(c) of the amount on which tax is chargeable in relation to—
num: 49
paragraphs: —(1) Notwithstanding section 46 (1) but subject to subsection (2), the rate at which tax is chargeable on a supply of contract work shall be the rate that would be chargeable if that supply of services were a supply of the goods being handed over by the contractor to the person to whom that supply is made.
num: 50
paragraphs: —(1) Where—
(a) goods are supplied by a manufacturer to a person and materials have been supplied by or on behalf of that person for the manufacture of those goods, and
(b) the rate of tax chargeable in relation to the supply of the goods (in this subsection referred to as the “goods rate”) exceeds the rate of tax (in this subsection referred to as the “materials rate”) that would be chargeable in relation to a supply within the State of the materials,
then the manufacturer shall, in respect of the supply of such goods, be liable (in addition to any other liability imposed on the manufacturer by this Act) to pay tax on the value of the materials provided to the manufacturer at a rate equivalent to the difference between the goods rate and the materials rate.
(2) Where—
num: 51
paragraphs: —(1) On receipt of an application in writing from an accountable person, the Revenue Commissioners shall, in accordance with regulations and after such consultation (if any) as may seem to them to be necessary with such person or body of persons as in their opinion may be of assistance to them, make a determination concerning—
(a) whether an activity of any particular kind carried on by the person is an exempted activity, or
(b) the rate at which tax is chargeable in relation to the supply or intra-Community acquisition by the person of goods of any kind, the supply or intra-Community acquisition of goods in any particular circumstances or the supply by the person of services of any kind.
(2) The Revenue Commissioners may, whenever they consider it expedient to do so, in accordance with regulations and after such consultation (if any) as may seem to them to be necessary with such person or body of persons as in their opinion may be of assistance to them, make a determination concerning—
(a) whether an activity of any particular kind is an exempted activity, or
(b) the rate at which tax is chargeable in relation to the supply or intra-Community acquisition of goods of any kind, the supply or intra-Community acquisition of goods in any particular circumstances or the supply of services of any kind.
(3) For the purposes of this Act, a determination under this section shall have effect—
(a) in relation to an accountable person who makes an application for the determination, as on and from the date which shall be specified for the purpose in the determination communicated to the accountable person in accordance with subsection (5)(a), and
(b) in relation to any other person, as on and from the date which shall be specified for the purpose in the determination as published in Iris OifigiÃºil.
(4) The Revenue Commissioners shall not make a determination under this section concerning any matter which has been determined on appeal under this Act or which is for the time being governed by an order under section 46 (4) or 52 (2), and shall not be required to make such a determination in relation to any of the matters referred to in an application under subsection (1) if—
(a) a previous determination has been published in regard to the matter, or
(b) in their opinion the subject matter of the application is sufficiently free from doubt as not to warrant the making and publication of a determination.
(5)(a) A determination under subsection (1) shall, as soon as may be after its making, be communicated to the person who made the application by the service on the person by the Revenue Commissioners of a notice containing particulars of the determination.
(b) A determination under subsection (1) may, and a determination under subsection (2) shall, be published in Iris OifigiÃºil and in at least one daily newspaper published in the State.
(6) A person, aggrieved by a determination under subsection (1) made pursuant to an application by him or her, may, on giving notice in writing to the Revenue Commissioners within the period of 21 days beginning on the date of service on him or her of notice of the determination in accordance with subsection (5)(a), appeal to the Appeal Commissioners.
(7) Any accountable person who, in the course of business, supplies goods or makes an intra-Community acquisition of goods, or supplies services of a kind or in circumstances specified in a determination under subsection (1) or (2), may, on giving notice in writing to the Revenue Commissioners within the period of 21 days beginning on the date of the publication of the determination in Iris OifigiÃºil, appeal to the Appeal Commissioners.
num: 52
paragraphs: —(1) Tax shall not be chargeable in respect of any exempted activity.
(2)(a) The Minister may by order declare the supply of goods or services of any kind to be an exempted activity.
(b) The Minister may by order amend or revoke an order under this subsection, including an order under this paragraph.
(c) An order under this subsection shall be laid before DÃ¡il Ãireann as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the order is passed by DÃ¡il Ãireann within the next 21 days on which DÃ¡il Ãireann has sat after the order is laid before it, the order shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.
num: 53
paragraphs: —(1) The value of imported goods for the purposes of this section and section 54 shall be their value determined in accordance with the acts for the time being in force adopted by the institutions of the Community relating to the valuation of goods for customs purposes, modified by the substitution of references to the territory of the State for references to the customs territory of the Community, together with any taxes, duties, expenses resulting from the transport of the goods to another place of destination within the Community (if that destination is known at the time of the importation) and other charges levied either outside or, by reason of importation, within the State (other than value-added tax) on the goods and not included in the determination.
num: 54
paragraphs: —(1) The Revenue Commissioners may, in accordance with regulations, remit or repay, if they think fit, the whole or part of the tax chargeable—
(a) on the importation of any goods which are shown to their satisfaction to have been previously exported,
(b) on the importation of any goods if they are satisfied that the goods have been or are to be re-exported,
(c) on the importation of any goods from the customs-free airport by an unregistered person who shows to the satisfaction of the Commissioners that he or she has already borne tax on the goods.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), the Revenue Commissioners shall, in accordance with regulations, repay the tax chargeable on the importation of goods where the goods have been dispatched or transported—
(a) to another Member State from outside the Community, and
(b) to a person (other than an individual) who is not registered for value-added tax in that other Member State.
(3) Subsection (2) shall apply only where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners that the goods in question have been subject to value-added tax referred to in the VAT Directive in that other Member State.
num: 55
paragraphs: —(1)(a) In this section—
“date of accession” means—
(i) 1 January 1995 in respect of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland (excluding the Åland Islands) and the Kingdom of Sweden,
(ii) 1 May 2004 in respect of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic,
(iii) 1 January 2007 in respect of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania;
“enlarged Community” means the Community after the accession of the new Member States;
“new Member State” means any state referred to in the definition of “date of accession” with effect from the relevant date.
(b) A word or expression that is used in this section and is also used in Council Directive No. 94/76/EC of 22 December 1994 3 , has, unless the contrary intention appears, the meaning in this section that it has in that Council Directive.
(2) Where—
(a) goods from a new Member State were imported into the State before the date of accession,
(b) the tax referred to in section 3 (b) was not chargeable because the goods were, at the time of such importation, placed—
(i) under an arrangement for temporary importation with total exemption from customs duty, or
(ii) under one of the arrangements referred to in Article 156(1) of the VAT Directive,
and
(c) the goods are still subject to such an arrangement on the date of accession,
then the provisions in force at the time the goods were placed under that arrangement shall continue to apply until the goods leave that arrangement on or after the date of accession.
(3)(a) In this subsection “common transit procedure” means the procedure approved by the Council of the European Communities by Council Decision No. 87/415/EEC of 15 June 1987 4 , approving the Convention done at Interlaken on the 20th day of May, 1987, between the European Community, the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland, the Republic of Iceland, the Kingdom of Norway, the Kingdom of Sweden, and the Swiss Confederation on a common transit procedure, the text of which is attached to that Council Decision.
(b) Where—
(i) goods were placed under the common transit procedure or under another customs transit procedure in a new Member State before the date of accession, and
(ii) those goods have not left the procedure concerned before the date of accession,
then the provisions in force at the time the goods were placed under that procedure shall continue to apply until the goods leave that procedure on or after the date of accession.
(4) Where goods were in free circulation in a new Member State prior to entry into the State, an importation into the State shall be deemed to occur in the following cases:
(a) the removal (including irregular removal) within the State of the goods referred to in subsection (2) from the arrangement referred to in subsection (2)(b)(i);
(b) the removal (including irregular removal) within the State of the goods referred to in subsection (2) from the arrangement referred to in subsection (2)(b)(ii);
(c) the termination within the State of any of the procedures referred to in subsection (3).
(5) An importation into the State shall be deemed to occur when goods, which were supplied within a new Member State before the date of accession, and which were not chargeable to a value-added tax in that new Member State, because of their exportation from that new Member State, are used in the State on or after the date of accession, and have not been imported before that date.
(6) The tax referred to in section 3 (b) shall not be chargeable where—
(a) the imported goods referred to in subsections (4) and (5) are dispatched or transported outside the enlarged Community,
(b) the imported goods referred to in subsection (4)(a) are other than means of transport and are being returned to the new Member State from which they were exported and to the person who exported them, or
(c) the imported goods referred to in subsection (4)(a) are means of transport which were acquired in or imported into a new Member State before the date of accession in accordance with the general conditions of taxation in force on the domestic market of that new Member State and which have not been subject by reason of their exportation to any exemption from or refund of a value-added tax in that new Member State.
(7) Subsection (6)(c) shall be deemed to be complied with where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners that—
(a) the date of the first use of the means of transport was before 1 January 1987 in the case of means of transport entering the State from the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland (excluding the Åland Islands) or the Kingdom of Sweden,
(b) the date of the first use of the means of transport was before 1 May 1996 in the case of means of transport entering the State from the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia or the Slovak Republic,
(c) the date of the first use of the means of transport was before 1 January 1999 in the case of means of transport entering the State from the Republic of Bulgaria or Romania, or
(d) the tax due by reason of the importation does not exceed €130.
3 OJ No. L365, 31.12.1994, p.53
4 OJ No. L 226, 13.8.87, p. 1
num: 56
paragraphs: —(1) For the purposes of this section and paragraph 7(7) of Schedule 2 —
“authorised person” means a qualifying person who has been authorised in accordance with subsection (3);
“qualifying person” means an accountable person whose turnover from—
num: 57
paragraphs: —(1) Regulations may make provision for remitting or repaying, subject to such conditions (if any) as may be specified in the regulations or as the Revenue Commissioners may impose, the tax chargeable in respect of the supply of goods, or of such goods as may be specified in the regulations, in cases where the Commissioners are satisfied that the goods have been or are to be exported.
(2) Regulations may make provision for remitting or repaying, subject to such conditions (if any) as may be specified in the regulations or as the Revenue Commissioners may impose, the tax chargeable in respect of the supply of services directly linked to the export of goods or the transit of goods from a place outside the State to another place outside the State.
num: 58
paragraphs: —(1) In this section—
“traveller” means a person whose domicile or habitual residence is not situated within the Community and includes a person who is normally resident in the Community but who, at the time of the supply of the goods, intends to take up residence outside the Community in the near future and for a period of at least 12 consecutive months;
“traveller’s qualifying goods” means goods (other than goods transported by the traveller for the equipping, fuelling and provisioning of pleasure boats, private aircraft or other means of transport for private use) which are supplied within the State to a traveller and which are exported by or on behalf of that traveller by the last day of the 3rd month following the month in which the supply takes place;
“VAT refunding agent” means a person who supplies services which consist of the procurement of a zero-rating (within the meaning of subsection (2)) or repayment of tax in relation to supplies of a traveller’s qualifying goods.
(2) The Revenue Commissioners shall, subject to and in accordance with regulations (if any), allow the application of section 46 (1)(b) (in this section referred to as “zero-rating”) to—
(a) the supply of a traveller’s qualifying goods, and
(b) the supply of services by a VAT refunding agent consisting of the service of repaying the tax claimed by a traveller in relation to the supply of a traveller’s qualifying goods or the procurement of the zero-rating of the supply of a traveller’s qualifying goods,
where they are satisfied that the supplier of the goods or services, as the case may be—
(i) has at the time of the supply of the goods taken all reasonable steps to confirm that the purchaser is a traveller as defined in this section,
(ii) has proof that the goods were exported by or on behalf of the traveller by the last day of the 3rd month following the month in which the supply takes place,
(iii) has proof that, where an amount of tax has been charged to the traveller in respect of a supply of goods covered by paragraph (ii), that the amount to be repaid to the traveller has been repaid to that traveller no later than the 25th working day following receipt by the supplier of the traveller’s claim to repayment,
(iv) notifies the traveller in writing of any amount (including the mark-up) charged by the supplier for procuring the repayment of the amount claimed or arranging for the zero-rating of the supply and where an amount so notified is expressed in terms of a percentage or a fraction, such percentage or fraction shall relate to the tax remitted or repayable under this subsection,
(v) uses, as the exchange rate in respect of moneys being repaid to a traveller in a currency other than the currency of the State—
(I) unless subparagraph (II) applies, the latest selling rate recorded by the Central Bank of Ireland for the currency in question at the time of the repayment,
(II) if there is an agreement with the Revenue Commissioners for a method to be used in determining the exchange rate, the exchange rate obtained using that method,
and
(vi) has made known to the traveller such details concerning the transaction as may be specified in regulations.
(3) Regulations may make provision for the authorisation, subject to certain conditions, of accountable persons or a class of accountable persons for the purposes of zero-rating of the supply of a traveller’s qualifying goods or to operate as a VAT refunding agent in the handling of a repayment of tax on the supply of a traveller’s qualifying goods and such regulations may provide for the cancellation of such authorisation and matters consequential to such cancellation.
(4) A VAT refunding agent acting as such may, in accordance with regulations, treat the tax charged to the traveller on the supply of that traveller’s qualifying goods as tax that is deductible by the agent in accordance with section 59 (2) provided that that agent fulfils the conditions set out in subsection (2) in respect of that supply.
(5) Where, in relation to a supply of goods, any of the conditions of paragraphs (i) to (vi) of subsection (2) are not complied with or are not complied with within the time limits specified in those paragraphs, where applicable, then—
(a) that supply is not a supply of traveller’s qualifying goods, and
(b) zero-rating is not applicable to the supply of services by a VAT refunding agent (if any) in respect of those goods.
(6) For the purposes of this section, and subject to the direction and control of the Revenue Commissioners, any power, function or duty conferred or imposed on them may be exercised or performed on their behalf by an officer of the Revenue Commissioners.
num: 59
paragraphs: —(1) In this subsection and subsection (2)—
“qualifying activities” means—
(a) transport outside the State of passengers and their accompanying baggage,
(b) supplies of goods which, by virtue of section 30 , are deemed to have taken place in the territory of another Member State but only if the supplier of those goods is registered for value-added tax in that other Member State,
(c) the operation, in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2777/2000 of 18 December 2000 5 , of the Cattle Testing or Purchase for Destruction Scheme, by a body who is an accountable person by virtue of the Value-Added Tax (Agricultural Intervention Agency) Order 2001 ( S.I. No. 11 of 2001 ),
num: 60
paragraphs: —(1) In this subsection and subsection (2)—
“delegate” means a taxable person or a taxable person’s employee or agent who attends a qualifying conference in the course or furtherance of the taxable person’s business;
“motor vehicles” means motor vehicles designed and constructed for the conveyance of persons by road and sports motor vehicles, estate cars, station wagons, motor cycles, motor scooters, mopeds and auto cycles, whether or not so designed and constructed, excluding vehicles designed and constructed for the carriage of more than 16 persons (inclusive of the driver), invalid carriages and other vehicles of a type designed for use by invalids or infirm persons;
num: 61
paragraphs: —(1) In this section—
“deductible supplies or activities” means the supply of taxable goods or taxable services, or the carrying out of qualifying activities within the meaning of section 59 (1);
“dual-use inputs” means movable goods or services (other than goods or services on the purchase or acquisition of which, by virtue of section 60 (2), a deduction of tax shall not be made, or services related to the development of immovable goods that are subject to Chapter 2 ) which are not used solely for the purposes of either deductible supplies or activities or non-deductible supplies or activities;
“non-deductible supplies or activities” means the supply of goods or services or the carrying out of activities other than deductible supplies or activities;
“total supplies and activities” means deductible supplies or activities and non-deductible supplies or activities.
(2) Where an accountable person engages in both deductible supplies or activities and non-deductible supplies or activities, then, in relation to the person’s acquisition of dual-use inputs for the purpose of that person’s business for a period, the person shall be entitled to deduct in accordance with section 59 (2) only such proportion of tax, borne or payable on that acquisition, which is calculated in accordance with this section and regulations, as being attributable to his or her deductible supplies or activities and such proportion of tax is, for the purposes of this section, referred to as the “proportion of tax deductible”.
(3) For the purposes of this section, the reference in subsection (2) to “tax, borne or payable” shall, in the case of an acquisition of a qualifying vehicle (within the meaning of section 59 (1)) be deemed to be a reference to “20 per cent of the tax, borne or payable”.
(4) For the purposes of this section and regulations, the proportion of tax deductible by an accountable person for a period shall be calculated on any basis which results in a proportion of tax deductible which—
(a) correctly reflects the extent to which the dual-use inputs are used for the purposes of the person’s deductible supplies or activities, and
(b) has due regard to the range of the person’s total supplies and activities.
(5) The proportion of tax deductible may be calculated on the basis of the ratio which the amount of a person’s tax-exclusive turnover from deductible supplies or activities for a period bears to the amount of the person’s tax-exclusive turnover from total supplies and activities for that period but only where that basis results in a proportion of tax deductible which is in accordance with subsection (4).
(6) Where it is necessary to do so to ensure that the proportion of tax deductible by an accountable person is in accordance with subsection (4), the accountable person shall—
(a) calculate a separate proportion of tax deductible for any part of that person’s business, or
num: 62
paragraphs: —(1)(a) This subsection applies where an accountable person deducts tax in relation to the purchase, intra-Community acquisition or importation of a qualifying vehicle (within the meaning of section 59 (1)) in accordance with section 59 (2)(d), and disposes of that vehicle within 2 years of that purchase, acquisition or importation.
(b) The accountable person shall be obliged to reduce the amount of the tax deductible by that person for the taxable period in which the qualifying vehicle is disposed of by an amount calculated in accordance with the formula—
TD × (4 — N)
4
where—
TD is the amount of tax deducted by that person on the purchase, acquisition or importation of that vehicle, and
N is a number that is equal to the number of days from the date of purchase, acquisition or importation of that vehicle by that person to the date of disposal by that person, divided by 182 and rounded down to the nearest whole number,
but if that N is greater than 4 then N shall be 4.
(2)(a) This subsection applies where an accountable person deducts tax in relation to the purchase, intra-Community acquisition or importation of a qualifying vehicle (within the meaning of section 59 (1)) in accordance with section 59 (2)(d) and that vehicle is subsequently used for less than 60 per cent business purposes in a taxable period.
(b) The accountable person is obliged to reduce the amount of tax deductible by that person for that taxable period by an amount calculated in accordance with the formula—
TD × (4 — N)
4
where—
TD is the amount of tax deducted by that person on the purchase, acquisition or importation of the qualifying vehicle, and
N is a number that is equal to the number of days from the date of purchase, acquisition or importation of that vehicle by that person to the first day of the taxable period in which that vehicle is used for less than 60 per cent business purposes, divided by 182 and rounded down to the nearest whole number,
but if that N is greater than 4 then N shall be 4.
num: 63
paragraphs: —(1) In this Chapter—
“adjustment period”, in relation to a capital good, means the period encompassing the number of intervals as provided for in section 64 (1)(a) during which adjustments of deductions are required to be made in respect of a capital good;
“base tax amount”, in relation to a capital good, means the amount calculated by dividing the total tax incurred in relation to that capital good by the number of intervals in the adjustment period applicable to that capital good;
“capital goods owner” means—
(a) unless paragraph (b) applies, a taxable person who incurs expenditure on the acquisition or development of a capital good,
(b) in the case of a taxable person who is a flat-rate farmer, a taxable person who incurs expenditure to develop or acquire a capital good other than a building or structure designed and used solely for the purposes of a farming business or for fencing, drainage or reclamation of land, and which has actually been put to use in such business;
“deductible supplies or activities” has the meaning assigned to it by section 61 ;
“initial interval”—
(a) in relation to a capital good, unless paragraph (b) applies, means a period of 12 months beginning on the date when that capital good is completed,
(b) in relation to a capital good that is supplied following completion, means, for the recipient of that supply, a period of 12 months beginning on the date of that supply;
“initial interval proportion of deductible use”, in relation to a capital good, means the proportion that correctly reflects the extent to which a capital good is used during the initial interval for the purposes of a capital goods owner’s deductible supplies or activities;
“interval”, in relation to a capital good, means the initial, second or subsequent interval in an adjustment period, whichever is appropriate;
“interval deductible amount”, in relation to a capital good in respect of the second and each subsequent interval, means the amount calculated by multiplying the base tax amount in relation to that capital good by the proportion of deductible use for that capital good applicable to the relevant interval;
“non-deductible amount”, in relation to a capital good, means the amount which is the difference between the total tax incurred in relation to that capital good and the total reviewed deductible amount in relation to that capital good;
“proportion of deductible use”, in relation to a capital good for an interval other than the initial interval, means the proportion that correctly reflects the extent to which a capital good is used during that interval for the purposes of a capital goods owner’s deductible supplies or activities;
“reference deduction amount”, in relation to a capital good, means the amount calculated by dividing the total reviewed deductible amount in relation to that capital good by the number of intervals in the adjustment period applicable to that capital good;
“refurbishment” means development on a previously completed building, structure or engineering work;
“second interval”, in relation to a capital good, means the period beginning on the day following the end of the initial interval in the adjustment period applicable to that capital good and ending on the final day of the accounting year during which the second interval begins;
“subsequent interval”, in relation to a capital good, means each accounting year of a capital goods owner in the adjustment period applicable to that capital good, which follows the second interval;
“total reviewed deductible amount”, in relation to a capital good, means the amount calculated by multiplying the total tax incurred in relation to that capital good by the initial interval proportion of deductible use in relation to that capital good;
“total tax incurred”, in relation to a capital good, means—
(a) the amount of tax charged to a capital goods owner in respect of that owner’s acquisition or development of a capital good,
(b) in the case of a transferee where a transfer of ownership of a capital good to which section 20 (2)(c) applies—
(i) where such a transfer would have been a supply but for the application of section 20 (2)(c) and that supply would have been exempt in accordance with section 94 (2) or 95 (3) or (7)(b), the total tax incurred that is required to be included in the copy of the capital good record that is required to be furnished by the transferor in accordance with section 64 (10)(c), and
(ii) where such a transfer is not one to which subparagraph (i) applies, the amount of tax that would have been chargeable on that transfer but for the application of section 20 (2)(c) and section 56 ,
and
(c) the amount of tax that would have been chargeable but for the application of section 56 to a capital goods owner on the owner’s acquisition or development of a capital good.
(2) This Chapter applies to capital goods—
(a) on the supply or development of which tax was chargeable to a taxable person who carries on a business in the State, or
(b) on the supply of which tax would have been chargeable to a taxable person who carries on a business in the State but for the application of section 20 (2)(c).
num: 64
paragraphs: —(1)(a) In relation to a capital good the number of intervals in the adjustment period during which adjustments of deductions are required under this Chapter to be made is—
(i) in the case of refurbishment, 10 intervals,
(ii) in the case of a capital good to which subsection (5)(a) or (b) applies, the number of full intervals remaining in the adjustment period applicable to that capital good plus one as required to be calculated in accordance with the formula set out in subsection (6)(b), and
(iii) in all other cases, 20 intervals.
(b) Where a capital goods owner supplies or transfers by means of a transfer to which section 20 (2)(c) applies a capital good during the adjustment period, then the adjustment period for that capital good for that owner shall end on the date of that supply or transfer.
(2)(a) Where the initial interval proportion of deductible use in relation to a capital good differs from the proportion of the total tax incurred in relation to that capital good which was deductible by that owner in accordance with Chapter 1 , then that owner shall, at the end of the initial interval, calculate an amount in accordance with the formula—
A — B
where—
A is the amount of the total tax incurred in relation to that capital good which was deductible by that owner in accordance with Chapter 1 , and
B is the total reviewed deductible amount in relation to that capital good.
(b) Where in accordance with paragraph (a)—
(i) A is greater than B, then the amount calculated in accordance with the formula set out in paragraph (a) shall be payable by that owner as if it were tax due in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 9 for the taxable period immediately following the end of the initial interval, or
(ii) B is greater than A, then that owner is entitled to increase the amount of tax deductible for the purposes of Chapter 1 by the amount calculated in accordance with paragraph (a) for the taxable period immediately following the end of the initial interval.
(c) Where a capital good is not used during the initial interval, then the initial interval proportion of deductible use is the proportion of the total tax incurred that is deductible by the capital goods owner in accordance with Chapter 1 .
(3)(a) Subject to subsection (4)(e), where in respect of an interval (other than the initial interval) the proportion of deductible use for that interval in relation to a capital good differs from the initial interval proportion of deductible use in relation to the capital good, then the capital goods owner shall, at the end of that interval, calculate an amount in accordance with the formula—
C — D
where—
C is the reference deduction amount in relation to that capital good, and
D is the interval deductible amount in relation to that capital good.
(b) Where in accordance with paragraph (a)—
(i) C is greater than D, then the amount calculated in accordance with the formula set out in paragraph (a) shall be payable by that owner as if it were tax due in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 9 for the taxable period immediately following the end of that interval, or
(ii) D is greater than C, then that owner is entitled to increase the amount of tax deductible for the purposes of Chapter 1 by the amount calculated in accordance with the formula set out in paragraph (a) for the taxable period immediately following the end of that interval.
(c) Where for the second or any subsequent interval, a capital good is not used during that interval, the proportion of deductible use in respect of that capital good for that interval shall be the proportion of deductible use for the previous interval.
(4)(a) Where in respect of a capital good for an interval (other than the initial interval) the proportion of deductible use expressed as a percentage differs by more than 50 percentage points from the initial interval proportion of deductible use expressed as a percentage, then the capital goods owner shall at the end of that interval calculate an amount in accordance with the formula—
(C — D) × N
where—
C is the reference deduction amount in relation to that capital good,
D is the interval deductible amount in relation to that capital good, and
N is the number of full intervals remaining in the adjustment period at the end of that interval plus one.
(b) Where in accordance with paragraph (a)—
(i) C is greater than D, then the amount calculated in accordance with the formula set out in paragraph (a) shall be payable by that owner as if it were tax due in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 9 for the taxable period immediately following the end of that interval, or
(ii) D is greater than C, then that owner is entitled to increase the amount of tax deductible for the purposes of Chapter 1 by the amount calculated in accordance with the formula set out in paragraph (a) for the taxable period immediately following the end of that interval.
(c) Paragraph (a) shall not apply to a capital good or part thereof that has been subject to subsection (5)(a) or (b) during the interval to which paragraph (a) applies.
(d) Where a capital goods owner is obliged to carry out a calculation referred to in paragraph (a) in respect of a capital good, then, for the purposes of the remaining intervals in the adjustment period, the proportion of deductible use in relation to that capital good for the interval in respect of which the calculation is required to be made shall be treated as if it were the initial interval proportion of deductible use in relation to that capital good and, until a further calculation is required under paragraph (a), all other definition amounts shall be calculated accordingly.
(e) Where the other provisions of this subsection apply to an interval, then subsection (3) does not apply to the interval.
(5)(a) Where a capital goods owner who is a landlord in respect of all or part of a capital good terminates his or her landlord’s option to tax in accordance with section 97 (1) in respect of any letting of that capital good, then—
(i) that owner is deemed, for the purposes of this Chapter, to have supplied and simultaneously acquired the capital good to which that letting relates,
(ii) that supply shall be deemed to be a supply on which tax is not chargeable and no option to tax that supply in accordance with section 94 (5) shall be permitted on that supply, and
(iii) the capital good acquired shall be treated as a capital good for the purposes of this Chapter and the amount calculated in accordance with subsection (6)(b) on that supply shall be treated as the total tax incurred in relation to that capital good.
(b) Where in respect of a letting of a capital good that is not subject to a landlord’s option to tax in accordance with section 97 (1), a landlord subsequently exercises a landlord’s option to tax in respect of a letting of that capital good, then—
(i) that landlord is deemed, for the purposes of this Chapter, to have supplied and simultaneously acquired that capital good to which that letting relates,
(ii) that supply shall be deemed to be a supply on which tax is chargeable, and
(iii) the capital good acquired shall be treated as a capital good for the purposes of this Chapter, and—
(I) the amount calculated in accordance with subsection (6)(a) shall be treated as the total tax incurred in relation to that capital good,
(II) the total tax incurred shall be deemed to have been deducted in accordance with Chapter 1 at the time of that supply.
(6)(a)(i) Where—
(I) a capital goods owner supplies a capital good or transfers a capital good, being a transfer to which section 20 (2)(c) applies (other than a transfer to which subsection (10)(c) applies) during the adjustment period in relation to that capital good,
(II) tax is chargeable on that supply, or tax would have been chargeable on that transfer but for the application of section 20 (2)(c), and
(III) the non-deductible amount in relation to that capital good for that owner is greater than zero or, in the case of a supply or transfer during the initial interval, that owner was not entitled to deduct all of the total tax incurred in accordance with Chapter 1 ,
then that owner is entitled to increase the amount of tax deductible by that owner for the purposes of Chapter 1 for the taxable period in which the supply or transfer occurs by an amount (in this paragraph referred to as the “relevant amount”) calculated in accordance with subparagraph (II).
(ii) The relevant amount shall be calculated in accordance with the formula—
E × N
T
where—
E is the non-deductible amount in relation to that capital good or, in the case of a supply before the end of the initial interval, the amount of the total tax incurred in relation to that capital good which was not deductible by that owner in accordance with Chapter 1 ,
N is the number of full intervals remaining in the adjustment period in relation to that capital good at the time of supply plus one,
T is the total number of intervals in the adjustment period in relation to that capital good.
(b)(i) Where—
(I) a capital goods owner supplies a capital good during the adjustment period applicable to that capital good,
(II) tax is not chargeable on that supply, and
(III) either—
(A) the total reviewed deductible amount in relation to that capital good is greater than zero, or
(B) in the case of a supply before the end of the initial interval where the amount of the total tax incurred in relation to that capital good which was deductible by that owner in accordance with Chapter 1 is greater than zero,
then that owner shall calculate, in accordance with subparagraph (ii), an amount (in this paragraph referred to as the “relevant amount”) which shall be payable as if it were tax due in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 9 for the taxable period in which the supply occurs.
(ii) The relevant amount shall be calculated in accordance with the formula—
B × N
T
where—
B is the total reviewed deductible amount in relation to that capital good or, in the case of a supply to which subparagraph (i)(III)(B) applies, the amount of the total tax incurred in relation to that capital good which that owner claimed as a deduction in accordance with Chapter 1 ,
N is the number of full intervals remaining in the adjustment period in relation to that capital good at the time of supply plus one, and
T is the total number of intervals in the adjustment period in relation to that capital good.
(c) Where a capital goods owner supplies or transfers, being a transfer to which section 20 (2)(c) applies, part of a capital good during the adjustment period, then, for the remainder of the adjustment period applicable to that capital good—
(i) the total tax incurred,
(ii) the total reviewed deductible amount, and
(iii) all other definition amounts,
in relation to the remainder of that capital good for that owner shall be adjusted accordingly on a fair and reasonable basis.
(7)(a) Where a tenant who has an interest in immovable goods (other than a freehold equivalent interest) and who is the capital goods owner in respect of a refurbishment of those goods assigns or surrenders the interest during the adjustment period applicable to the refurbishment, then the tenant—
(i) shall, in accordance with the formula set out in subsection (6)(b), calculate an amount in respect of the refurbishment, and
(ii) shall pay the amount as if it were tax due (as provided by Chapter 3 of Part 9 ) for the taxable period in which the assignment or surrender occurs.
(b) Paragraph (a) shall not apply where—
(i) either—
(I) the total reviewed deductible amount in relation to that capital good is equal to the total tax incurred in relation to that capital good, or
(II) in relation to an assignment or surrender that occurs prior to the end of the initial interval in relation to that capital good, the tenant was entitled to deduct all of the total tax incurred in accordance with Chapter 1 in relation to that capital good,
(ii) the tenant enters into a written agreement with the person to whom the interest is assigned or surrendered, to the effect that that person shall be responsible for all obligations under this Chapter in relation to the capital good referred to in paragraph (a) from the date of the assignment or surrender of the interest referred to in paragraph (a), as if—
(I) the total tax incurred and the amount deducted by that tenant in relation to that capital good were the total tax incurred and the amount deducted by the person to whom the interest is assigned or surrendered, and
(II) any adjustments required to be made under this Chapter by the tenant were made,
and
(iii) the tenant issues a copy of the capital good record in respect of the capital good referred to in paragraph (a) to the person to whom the interest is being assigned or surrendered.
(c) Where paragraph (b) applies, the person to whom the interest is assigned or surrendered—
(i) shall be responsible for the obligations referred to in paragraph (b)(ii), and
(ii) shall use the information in the copy of the capital good record issued by the tenant in accordance with paragraph (b)(iii) for the purposes of calculating any tax chargeable or deductible in accordance with this Chapter in respect of that capital good by that person from the date of the assignment or surrender of the interest referred to in paragraph (a).
(d) Where the capital good is one to which subsection (11) applies, paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) shall not apply.
(8)(a) Paragraph (c) applies where—
(i) either—
(I) a capital goods owner supplies a capital good during the adjustment period applicable to that capital good and tax is chargeable on that supply, or
(II) a capital goods owner transfers (other than a transfer to which subsection (10)(c) applies) a capital good during the adjustment period applicable to that capital good and tax would have been chargeable on that transfer but for the application of section 20 (2)(c),
(ii) at the time of that supply or transfer, that owner and the person to whom the capital good is supplied or transferred are connected within the meaning of section 97 , and
(iii) the amount of tax—
(I) chargeable on the supply of that capital good,
(II) that would have been chargeable on the transfer of that capital good but for the application of section 20 (2)(c), or
(III) that would have been chargeable on the supply but for the application of section 56 ,
is less than the amount (in this subsection referred to as the “adjustment amount”) calculated in accordance with paragraph (b).
(b) The adjustment amount shall be calculated in accordance with the formula—
H × N
T
where—
H is the total tax incurred in relation to that capital good for the capital goods owner making that supply or transfer,
N is the number of full intervals remaining in the adjustment period in relation to that capital good plus one, and
T is the total number of intervals in the adjustment period in relation to that capital good.
(c) The capital goods owner shall calculate an amount, which shall be payable by that owner as if it were tax due in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 9 for the taxable period in which the supply or transfer occurs, in accordance with the formula—
I — J
where—
I is the adjustment amount, and
J is the amount of tax chargeable on the supply of that capital good, or the amount of tax that would have been chargeable on the transfer of that capital good but for the application of section 20 (2)(c), or the amount of tax that would have been chargeable on the supply but for the application of section 56 .
(9)(a) In this subsection—
“connected supply” means a supply or transfer of a capital good which is a supply or transfer on which a seller would, but for the application of this subsection, be obliged to calculate an amount of tax due in accordance with subsection (8);
“purchaser” means the person to whom the supply or transfer referred to in subsection (8) is made;
“seller” means the capital goods owner referred to in subsection (8) who makes the supply or transfer of the capital good referred to in that subsection.
(b) Subsection (8) shall not apply where—
(i) a connected supply occurs and the seller enters into a written agreement with the purchaser to the effect that that purchaser shall be responsible for all obligations under this Chapter in relation to the capital good from the date of the supply or transfer of that capital good, as if—
(I) the total tax incurred and the amount deducted by that seller in relation to that capital good were the total tax incurred and the amount deducted by that purchaser, and
(II) any adjustments required to be made under this Chapter by that purchaser were made,
and
(ii) the seller issues a copy of the capital good record in respect of the capital good referred to in subparagraph (i) to the purchaser.
(c) Where paragraph (b) applies, the purchaser shall—
(i) be responsible for the obligations referred to in paragraph (b)(i), and
(ii) use the information in the copy of the capital good record issued by the seller in accordance with paragraph (b)(ii) for the purposes of calculating any tax chargeable or deductible in accordance with this Chapter in respect of that capital good by that purchaser from the date on which the supply or transfer referred to in paragraph (b)(i) occurs.
(10)(a) Where a capital goods owner acquires a capital good—
(i) by way of a transfer, being a transfer to which section 20 (2)(c) applies other than a transfer to which paragraph (c) applies, on which tax would have been chargeable but for the application of section 20 (2)(c), or
(ii) on the supply or development of which tax was chargeable in accordance with section 56 ,
then, for the purposes of this Chapter, that capital goods owner is deemed to have claimed a deduction in accordance with Chapter 1 of the tax that would have been chargeable—
(I) on the transfer of that capital good but for the application of section 20 (2)(c), less any amount accounted for by that owner in respect of that transfer in accordance with paragraph (b), and
(II) on the supply or development of that capital good but for the application of section 56 .
(b)(i) Where—
(I) a transfer of ownership of a capital good (in this paragraph referred to as the “relevant capital good”) occurs, being a transfer to which section 20 (2)(c) applies, but excluding a transfer to which paragraph (c) applies, and
(II) the transferee would not have been entitled to deduct all of the tax that would have been chargeable on that transfer but for the application of section 20 (2)(c),
then that transferee shall calculate an amount (in this paragraph referred to as the “relevant amount”) in accordance with subparagraph (ii).
(ii) The relevant amount shall be calculated in accordance with the formula—
F — G
where—
F is the amount of tax that would have been chargeable but for the application of section 20 (2)(c), and
G is the amount of that tax that would have been deductible in accordance with Chapter 1 by that transferee if section 20 (2)(c) had not applied to that transfer.
(iii) The relevant amount shall be payable by that transferee as if it were tax due in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 9 for the taxable period in which the transfer occurs.
(iv) For the purposes of this Chapter, the relevant amount shall be deemed to be the amount of the total tax incurred in relation to the relevant capital good that the transferee was not entitled to deduct in accordance with Chapter 1 .
(c) Where a capital goods owner makes a transfer of a capital good to which this paragraph applies—
(i) the transferor shall issue a copy of the capital good record to the transferee,
(ii) the transferee becomes the successor to the capital goods owner who transferred the capital good and is responsible for all obligations of that owner under this Chapter from the date of the transfer of that good, as if—
(I) the total tax incurred and the amount deducted by the transferor in relation to the good were the total tax incurred and the amount deducted by the transferee, and
(II) any adjustments required to be made under this Chapter by the transferor had been made,
and
(iii) the transferee as successor shall use the information in the copy of the capital good record issued by the transferor in accordance with subparagraph (i) for the purpose of calculating the tax chargeable or deductible by the successor in accordance with this Chapter for the remainder of the adjustment period applicable to that good as from the date of its transfer.
(d) Paragraph (c) applies to a transfer of a capital good if—
(i) the transfer is of the kind referred to in section 20 (2)(c), and
(ii) but for the application of section 20 (2), that transfer would be a supply—
(I) that is exempt in accordance with section 94 (2) or 95 (3) or (7)(b), or
(II) in respect of which tax is chargeable in accordance with section 95 (7)(a).
(11) Where a capital good is destroyed during the adjustment period in relation to that capital good, then no further adjustment under this Chapter shall be made by the capital goods owner in respect of any remaining intervals in the adjustment period in relation to that capital good.
(12) A capital goods owner shall create and maintain a record (in this Chapter referred to as a “capital good record”) in respect of each capital good and that record shall contain sufficient information to determine any adjustments in respect of that capital good required in accordance with this Chapter.
(13) The Revenue Commissioners may make regulations necessary for the purposes of the operation of this Chapter, in particular in relation to the duration of a subsequent interval where the accounting year of a capital goods owner changes.
num: 65
paragraphs: —(1) The Revenue Commissioners shall set up and maintain a register of persons—
(a) who are, or who may become, accountable persons, or
(b) who are persons who dispose of goods which pursuant to section 22 (3) are deemed to be supplied by an accountable person in the course or furtherance of his or her business.
(2) The Revenue Commissioners shall assign a registration number to each person registered in accordance with subsection (1).
(3) Every accountable person shall, within the period of 30 days beginning on the day on which the person first becomes an accountable person, furnish in writing to the Revenue Commissioners the particulars specified in regulations as being required for the purpose of registering the person for tax.
(4) Every person who disposes of goods which pursuant to section 22 (3) are deemed to be supplied by an accountable person in the course or furtherance of his or her business shall, within 14 days of the disposal, furnish in writing to the Revenue Commissioners the particulars specified in regulations as being required for the purpose of registering the person for tax.
num: 66
paragraphs: —(1) An accountable person—
(a) who supplies goods or services—
(i) to another accountable person,
(ii) to a public body,
(iii) to a person who carries on an exempted activity,
(iv) to a person (other than an individual) in another Member State of the Community in such circumstances that tax is chargeable at any of the rates specified in section 46 (1), or
(v) to a person in another Member State who is liable to pay value-added tax pursuant to the VAT Directive on such supply,
or
(b) who supplies goods to a person in another Member State of the Community in the circumstances referred to in section 30 (1)(a)(ii),
shall issue to the person so supplied, in respect of each such supply, an invoice in such form and containing such particulars as may be specified by regulations.
(2)(a) Subject to paragraph (b), an invoice or other document required to be issued by a person under this Chapter shall be deemed to be so issued by the person if the particulars which are required by regulations to be contained in that invoice or other document are recorded, retained and transmitted electronically by a system (or systems) which ensures (or ensure) the integrity of those particulars and the authenticity of their origin, without the issue of any invoice or other document containing those particulars.
(b) An invoice or other document required to be issued under this Chapter shall not be deemed by paragraph (a) to be so issued unless the person who is required to issue that invoice or other document—
(i) complies with such conditions as are specified by regulations, and
(ii) the system (or systems) used by that person conforms (or conform) with such specifications as are required by regulations.
(c) The person who receives a transmission referred to in paragraph (a) shall not be deemed to be issued with an invoice or other document required to be issued under this Chapter unless—
(i) the particulars that are required by regulations to be contained in that invoice or other document are received electronically in a system that ensures the integrity of those particulars and the authenticity of their origin,
(ii) that system conforms with such specifications as are required by regulations, and
(iii) that person complies with such conditions as are specified by regulations.
(3) Where a taxable person who carries on a business in the State supplies greenhouse gas emission allowances (within the meaning of section 16 (2)) to a recipient (within the meaning of section 16 (2)), the person shall issue a document to the recipient indicating—
(a) that the recipient is liable to account for the tax chargeable on that supply, and
(b) such other particulars as would be required to be included in that document if that document were an invoice required to be issued in accordance with subsection (1) but excluding the amount of tax payable.
(4)(a) Where a subcontractor who is an accountable person supplies a service to which section 16 (3) applies, then the subcontractor shall issue a document to the principal indicating—
(i) that the principal is liable to account for the tax chargeable on that supply, and
(ii) such other particulars as would be required to be included in that document if that document were an invoice required to be issued in accordance with subsection (1) but excluding the amount of tax payable.
(b) Where the principal and the subcontractor so agree, section 71 (1) may apply to this document as if it were an invoice.
(5)(a) In this subsection—
“travel agent” and “margin scheme services” have the meanings respectively assigned to them by section 88 (1);
“qualifying accommodation” and “qualifying conference” have the meanings respectively assigned to them by section 60 (1).
(b) Where a travel agent supplies margin scheme services that include qualifying accommodation in connection with the attendance by a traveller at a qualifying conference, the travel agent shall issue a document to the traveller containing particulars of the amount of tax chargeable by the accommodation provider in respect of the supply of the qualifying accommodation to that traveller.
num: 67
paragraphs: —(1) Where, subsequent to the issue of an invoice by a person to another person in accordance with section 66 (1), the consideration as stated in that invoice is increased or reduced, or a discount is allowed, whichever of the following provisions is appropriate shall have effect:
(a) if the consideration is increased, the person shall issue to that other person another invoice in such form and containing such particulars as may be specified by regulations in respect of the increase;
(b) if the consideration is reduced or a discount is allowed—
(i) the person shall issue to that other person a document (in this Act referred to as a “credit note”) containing particulars of the reduction or discount in such form and containing such other particulars as may be specified by regulations, and
(ii) if that other person is an accountable person, the amount which the accountable person may deduct under Chapter 1 of Part 8 shall, in accordance with regulations, be reduced by the amount of tax shown on that credit note.
(2) Where a person who is entitled to receive a credit note under subsection (1)(b) from another person issues to that other person, before the date on which a credit note is issued by that other person, a document (in this subsection referred to as a “debit note”) in such form and containing such particulars as may be specified by regulations, then, for the purposes of this Act—
(a) the person who issues the debit note shall, if the person to whom it is issued accepts it, be deemed to have received from the person by whom the note was accepted a credit note containing the particulars set out in that debit note, and
(b) the person to whom the debit note is issued shall, if he or she accepts it, be deemed to have issued to the person from whom the debit note was received a credit note containing the particulars set out in that debit note.
(3) Notwithstanding subsection (5) and section 69 (1), where a person issues an invoice in accordance with section 66 (1) which indicates a rate of tax and subsequent to the issue of that invoice it is established that a lower rate of tax applied, then—
(a) the amount of consideration stated on that invoice shall be deemed to have been reduced to nil,
(b) subsection (1)(b) shall have effect, and
(c) following the issue of a credit note in accordance with subsection (1)(b), the person shall issue another invoice in accordance with this Act and regulations.
(4) Where, subsequent to the issue of an invoice by a person to another person in accordance with section 66 (1) in respect of an amount received by way of a deposit, and section 74 (4) applies, then—
(a) the amount of the consideration stated on that invoice is deemed to be reduced to nil,
(b) the person shall issue to that other person a document to be treated as if it were a credit note containing particulars of the reduction in such form and containing such other particulars as would be required to be included in that document if that document were a credit note, and
(c) if that other person is an accountable person, the amount which that other person may deduct under Chapter 1 of Part 8 shall be reduced by the amount of tax shown on the document as if that document were a credit note.
(5) Notwithstanding subsection (1) but subject to subsection (6), where, subsequent to the issue to a registered person of an invoice in accordance with section 66 (1), the consideration stated in that invoice is reduced or a discount is allowed in such circumstances that, by agreement between the persons concerned, the amount of tax stated in the invoice is unaltered, then—
(a) paragraph (b) of subsection (1) shall not apply in relation to the person by whom the invoice was issued,
(b) the reduction or discount concerned shall not be taken into account in computing the liability to tax of the person making the reduction or allowing the discount,
(c) section 69 (1) shall not apply, and
(d) the amount which the person in whose favour the reduction or discount is made or allowed may deduct in respect of the relevant transaction under Chapter 1 of Part 8 shall not be reduced.
(6) Subsection (5) shall not apply in any case where—
(a) subsection (4) applies, or
(b) the person who issued the invoice referred to in subsection (5) was, at the time of its issue, a person authorised, in accordance with section 80 (1), to determine that person’s tax liability in respect of supplies of the kind in question by reference to the amount of moneys received.
num: 68
paragraphs: —(1) A flat-rate farmer who, in accordance with section 86 (1), is required to issue an invoice in respect of the supply of agricultural produce or an agricultural service shall, in respect of each such supply, issue an invoice in the form and containing such particulars (in addition to those specified in section 86 (1)) as may be specified by regulations, if the following conditions are fulfilled:
(a) the issue of the invoice is requested by a purchaser;
(b) the purchaser provides the form for the purpose of the invoice and enters the appropriate particulars thereon;
(c) the purchaser gives a copy of the invoice to the flat-rate farmer,
but may issue the invoice if those conditions or any of them are not fulfilled.
(2) Where, subsequent to the issue by a flat-rate farmer of an invoice in accordance with subsection (1), the consideration as stated on the invoice is increased or reduced, or a discount is allowed, whichever of the following provisions is appropriate shall have effect:
(a) in case the consideration is increased—
(i) the flat-rate farmer shall issue another invoice (if the conditions referred to in subsection (1) are fulfilled in relation to it)—
(I) containing particulars of the increase and of the flat-rate addition appropriate thereto, and
(II) in such form and containing such other particulars as may be specified by regulations,
and
(ii) the other invoice referred to in subparagraph (i) shall be deemed, for the purposes of Chapter 1 of Part 8 , to be issued in accordance with section 86 (1),
but that farmer may not issue the invoice if any of the conditions referred to in subsection (1) is not fulfilled;
(b) in case the consideration is reduced or a discount is allowed—
(i) the flat-rate farmer shall issue a document (in this Chapter referred to as a “farmer credit note”)—
(I) containing particulars of the reduction or discount, and
(II) in such form and containing such other particulars as may be specified by regulations,
and
(ii) the amount which the person may deduct under Chapter 1 of Part 8 or is entitled to be repaid under section 57 , 102 or 104 (4) or (5) shall, in accordance with regulations, be reduced by an amount equal to the amount of the flat-rate addition appropriate to the amount of the reduction or discount.
(3) Where a person who is entitled to receive a farmer credit note under subsection (2)(b) from another person issues to that other person, before the date on which a farmer credit note is issued by that other person, a document (in this Chapter referred to as a “farmer debit note”) in such form and containing such particulars as may be specified by regulations, then, for the purposes of this Act—
(a) the person who issues the farmer debit note shall, if the person to whom it is issued accepts it, be deemed to have received a farmer credit note (containing the particulars set out in the farmer debit note) from the person by whom the farmer debit note was accepted, and
(b) the person to whom the farmer debit note is issued shall, if he or she accepts it, be deemed to have issued a farmer credit note (containing the particulars set out in the farmer debit note) to the person from whom the farmer debit note was received.
(4) Where—
(a) agricultural produce or agricultural services are supplied to a registered person by a flat-rate farmer, and
(b) the person to whom the agricultural produce or services are supplied issues to the other person, before the date on which an invoice is issued by that other person, a document (in this Act referred to as a “settlement voucher”) in such form and containing such particulars as may be specified by regulations,
then, for the purposes of this Act—
(i) the person who issues the settlement voucher shall, if the person to whom it is issued accepts it, be deemed to have received an invoice (containing the particulars set out in the voucher) from the person by whom the voucher was accepted, and
(ii) the person to whom the settlement voucher is issued shall, if he or she accepts it, be deemed to have issued an invoice (containing the particulars set out in the voucher) to the person from whom the voucher was received.
(5) The provisions of this Act (other than this Chapter) relating to credit notes and debit notes issued under section 67 (1) or (2) respectively shall apply in relation to farmer credit notes and farmer debit notes as they apply in relation to such credit notes and debit notes.
num: 69
paragraphs: —(1) Where an accountable person—
(a) issues an invoice stating a greater amount of tax than that properly attributable to the consideration stated therein, or
(b) issues a credit note stating a lesser amount of tax than that properly attributable to the reduction in consideration or the discount stated therein,
the accountable person shall be liable to pay to the Revenue Commissioners the excess amount of tax stated in the invoice or the amount of the deficiency of tax stated in the credit note.
(2) A person who is not a registered person and who issues an invoice stating an amount of tax shall, in relation to the amount of tax stated, be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be an accountable person and shall be liable to pay that amount to the Revenue Commissioners.
(3) Where a person (other than a flat-rate farmer) issues an invoice stating an amount of flat-rate addition, he or she shall be liable to pay to the Revenue Commissioners as tax the amount of flat-rate addition stated and shall, in relation to that amount, be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be an accountable person.
(4) Where a flat-rate farmer issues an invoice stating an amount of flat-rate addition otherwise than in respect of an actual supply of agricultural produce or an agricultural service, or in respect of such a supply but stating a greater amount of flat-rate addition than is appropriate to the supply, the farmer shall be liable to pay to the Revenue Commissioners as tax the amount or the excess amount, as the case may be, of the flat-rate addition stated and shall, in relation to that amount or that excess amount, be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be an accountable person.
(5) Where a flat-rate farmer, in a case in which he or she is required to issue a farmer credit note under section 68 (2)(b), fails to issue the credit note within the time allowed by regulations, or issues a credit note stating a lesser amount of flat-rate addition than is appropriate to the reduction in consideration or the discount, the farmer shall be liable to pay to the Revenue Commissioners as tax the amount of flat-rate addition that should have been stated on the credit note or the amount of the deficiency of flat-rate addition, as the case may be, and shall, in relation to that amount or that deficiency, be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be an accountable person.
num: 70
paragraphs: —(1)(a) An invoice, credit note or document required to be issued in accordance with this Chapter shall be issued within such time after the date of supplying goods or services as may be specified by regulations.
(b) An amendment of an invoice pursuant to section 68 (2)(b) shall be effected within such time as may be specified by regulations.
num: 71
paragraphs: —(1) An invoice required under this Chapter to be issued in respect of a supply by a person (in this section referred to as the “supplier”) is deemed to be so issued by that supplier if that invoice is drawn up and issued by the person to whom that supply is made (in this section referred to as the “customer”) where—
(a) there is prior agreement between the supplier and the customer that the customer may draw up and issue the invoice,
(b) the customer is a person registered for value-added tax,
(c) any conditions which are imposed by this Act or by regulations on the supplier in relation to the form, content or issue of the invoice are met by the customer, and
(d) agreed procedures are in place for the acceptance by the supplier of the validity of the invoice.
(2) An invoice, which is deemed to be issued by the supplier in accordance with subsection (1), is deemed to have been so issued when that invoice is accepted by that supplier in accordance with the agreed procedures referred to in subsection (1)(d).
(3) An invoice required to be issued by a supplier under this Chapter shall be deemed to be so issued by that supplier if—
(a) the invoice is issued by a person who acts in the name and on behalf of the supplier, and
(b) any conditions which are imposed by this Act or by regulations on the supplier in relation to the form, content or issue of the invoice are met.
(4) Any credit note or debit note issued in accordance with this Chapter that amends and refers specifically and unambiguously to an invoice is treated as if it were an invoice for the purposes of this section.
(5) The Revenue Commissioners may make regulations in relation to the conditions applying to invoices covered by this section.
num: 72
paragraphs: —(1) A person who issues, or is deemed to issue, an invoice under this Chapter shall ensure that—
(a) a copy of any invoice issued by the person,
(b) a copy of any invoice deemed to be issued by the person in the circumstances specified in section 71 , and
(c) any invoice received by the person,
is stored and, for the purposes of section 84 (1), the reference to the keeping of full and true records therein shall be construed accordingly in so far as it relates to invoices covered by this Chapter.
(2) Any invoice not stored by electronic means in a manner which conforms with requirements laid down by the Revenue Commissioners shall be stored within the State but, subject to the agreement of the Commissioners and any conditions set by them, the invoice may be stored outside the State.
num: 73
paragraphs: —(1)(a) An accountable person shall, if requested in writing by another person and if the request states that the other person is entitled to repayment of tax under section 103 , give to that other person in writing the particulars of the amount of tax chargeable by the accountable person in respect of the supply by the accountable person of the goods or services that are specified in the request.
(b) An accountable person shall, if requested in writing by another person and if the request states that the other person is entitled to repayment of tax under section 57 , 58 , 102 or 104 (1), (4) or (5), give to that other person in writing the particulars specified in regulations for the purposes of section 66 (1) in respect of the goods or services supplied by the accountable person to that other person that are specified in the request.
(c) An accountable person shall, if requested in writing by another person and if the request states that the other person is entitled to repayment of tax under section 104 (3), give to that other person in writing the particulars of the amount of tax chargeable by the accountable person in respect of the supply by the accountable person of the radio broadcasting reception apparatus and parts thereof that are specified in the request.
(2) A flat-rate farmer shall, if requested in writing by another person and if the request states that the other person is entitled to repayment of the flat-rate addition under section 57 , 102 or 104 (4) or (5), give to that other person in writing the particulars specified in regulations for the purpose of section 68 (1) in respect of the goods or services supplied by the flat-rate farmer to that other person that are specified in the request.
(3) A request under subsection (1) or (2) shall be complied with by the person to whom it is given within 30 days after the date on which the request is received by the person.
num: 74
paragraphs: —(1) Tax chargeable under section 3 (a) or (c) shall be due—
(a) in case an invoice is required under Chapter 2 to be issued, at the time of issue of the invoice or, if the invoice is not issued in due time, upon the expiration of the period within which the invoice should have been issued,
(b) in case a person is liable under section 69 (1) or (2) to pay an amount of tax by reference to an invoice, or credit note, issued by him or her, at the time of issue of that invoice or credit note,
num: 75
paragraphs: — Tax chargeable under section 3 (d) or (e) shall be due—
(a) on the 15th day of the month following that during which the intra-Community acquisition occurs,
(b) in case an invoice is issued before the date specified in paragraph (a) by the supplier in another Member State to the person acquiring the goods, when that invoice is issued.
num: 76
paragraphs: —(1) Subject to subsection (2), an accountable person shall, within 9 days immediately after the 10th day of the month immediately following a taxable period—
(a) furnish to the Collector-General a true and correct return, prepared in accordance with regulations, of—
(i) the amount of tax which became due by the person during that taxable period (other than tax already paid by him or her in relation to goods imported by him or her),
(ii) the amount (if any) which may be deducted in accordance with Chapter 1 of Part 8 in computing the amount of tax payable by the person in respect of that taxable period, and
(iii) such other particulars as may be specified in regulations,
and
(b) remit to the Collector-General, at the same time as so furnishing such return, the amount of tax (if any) payable by the person in respect of that taxable period.
(2) A person who disposes of goods which pursuant to section 22 (3) are deemed to be supplied by an accountable person in the course or furtherance of his or her business shall—
(a) within 9 days immediately after the 10th day of the month immediately following a taxable period—
(i) furnish to the Collector-General—
(I) a true and correct return, prepared in accordance with regulations, of the amount of tax which became due by the accountable person in relation to the disposal, and
(II) such other particulars as may be specified in regulations,
and
(ii) remit to the Collector-General, at the same time as so furnishing such return, the amount of tax payable in respect of that taxable period,
(b) send to the person whose goods were disposed of a statement containing such particulars as may be specified in regulations, and
(c) treat the amount of tax referred to in paragraph (a) as a necessary disbursement out of the proceeds of the disposal.
(3) The owner of goods which pursuant to section 22 (3) are deemed to be supplied by an accountable person in the course or furtherance of the accountable person’s business shall exclude from any return which the owner is or, but for this subsection, would be required to furnish under this Act, the tax payable in accordance with subsection (2).
(4)(a)(i) A return required to be furnished by an accountable person under this section or section 77 may be furnished by the accountable person or another person acting under the accountable person’s authority for that purpose.
(ii) A return purporting to be a return furnished by a person acting under an accountable person’s authority shall be deemed to be a return furnished by the accountable person unless the contrary is proved.
(b) Where a return in accordance with paragraph (a) is furnished by a person acting under an accountable person’s authority, the provisions of any enactment relating to value-added tax shall apply as if that return had been furnished by the accountable person.
num: 77
paragraphs: —(1)(a) In this section—
“accounting period” means a period, as determined by the Collector-General from time to time in any particular case, consisting of a number of consecutive taxable periods not exceeding 6 or such other period not exceeding a continuous period of 12 months as may be specified by the Collector-General;
“authorised person” means an accountable person who has been authorised in writing by the Collector-General for the purposes of this section, and “authorise” and “authorisation” shall be construed accordingly.
(b) Where an accounting period begins before the end of a taxable period, the period of time from the beginning of the accounting period to the end of the taxable period during which the accounting period begins shall, for the purposes of this section, be treated as if such period of time were a taxable period, and any references in this section to a taxable period shall be construed accordingly.
(c) Where an accounting period ends after the beginning of a taxable period, the period of time from the beginning of the taxable period during which the accounting period ends to the end of the accounting period shall, for the purposes of this section, be treated as if such period of time were a taxable period, and any references in this section to a taxable period shall be construed accordingly.
(2) Notwithstanding section 76 (1)—
(a) the Collector-General may, from time to time, authorise in writing an accountable person for the purposes of this section unless the accountable person objects in writing to the authorisation,
(b) an authorised person may, within 9 days immediately after the 10th day of the month immediately following an accounting period—
(i) furnish to the Collector-General a true and correct return prepared in accordance with regulations of—
(I) the amount of tax which became due by the person during the taxable periods which comprise the accounting period (other than tax already paid by him or her in relation to goods imported by him or her),
(II) the amount (if any) which may be deducted in accordance with Chapter 1 of Part 8 in computing the amount of tax payable by the person in respect of those taxable periods, and
(III) such other particulars as may be specified in regulations,
and
(ii) remit to the Collector-General, at the same time as so furnishing such return, any amount of tax payable by the person in respect of those taxable periods,
(c) in the case of an authorised person referred to in subsection (5), the amount of tax referred to in paragraph (b)(ii) shall be the balance of tax remaining to be paid (if any) after deducting from it the amount of tax paid by the person by direct debit in respect of his or her accounting period,
(d) where the authorised person concerned furnishes and remits in accordance with this subsection, the person shall be deemed to have complied with section 76 (1) in relation to those taxable periods.
(3) For the purposes of issuing an authorisation to an accountable person, the Collector-General shall, where he or she considers it appropriate, have regard to the following matters:
(a) he or she has reasonable grounds to believe that—
(i) the authorisation will not result in a loss of tax, and
(ii) the accountable person will meet all of his or her obligations under the authorisation;
and
(b) the accountable person—
(i) has been a registered person during all of the period consisting of the 6 taxable periods immediately preceding the period in which an authorisation would, if it were issued, have effect, and
(ii) has complied with section 76 (1).
(4) An authorisation may—
(a) be issued without conditions or subject to such conditions as the Collector-General, having regard in particular to the considerations referred to in subsection (3), considers proper and specifies in writing to the accountable person concerned when issuing the authorisation,
(b) without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (a), require an authorised person to remit to the Collector-General, within 9 days immediately after the 10th day of the month immediately following each taxable period (other than the final taxable period) which is comprised in an accounting period, such an amount as may be specified by the Collector-General.
num: 78
paragraphs: —(1) In this section—
“electronic remittance” means a remittance made by such electronic means (within the meaning of section 917EA of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 ) as are required by the Revenue Commissioners;
“electronic return” means a return made by electronic means and in accordance with Chapter 6 of Part 38 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 ;
“relevant provisions” mean sections 76 (1) and (2) and 77 (2)(b) and (4)(b).
(2) Subject to subsection (3), where an electronic remittance or, as the case may be, an electronic return and electronic remittance of the amount payable (if any) referred to in the relevant provisions is or are made, then the relevant provisions shall apply and have effect as if “13 days” were substituted for “9 days” in each place where the latter occurs in the relevant provisions.
(3) Where the remittance or return referred to in subsection (2) is made after the period provided for in that subsection, this Act shall apply and have effect without regard to the other provisions of this section.
num: 79
paragraphs: —(1) In this section—
“registration of the vehicle” means the registration of the vehicle in accordance with section 131 of the Finance Act 1992 ;
“vehicle registration tax” means the tax referred to in section 132 of the Finance Act 1992 .
(2) Notwithstanding sections 76 and 77 , where a person makes an intra-Community acquisition of a new means of transport (other than a vessel or aircraft) in respect of which he or she is not entitled to a deduction under Chapter 1 of Part 8 , then—
(a) the tax shall be payable—
(i) subject to subparagraphs (ii) and (iii), at the time of payment of the vehicle registration tax,
(ii) subject to subparagraph (iii), if no vehicle registration tax is payable, at the time of registration of the vehicle,
(iii) if section 131 of the Finance Act 1992 does not provide for the registration of the vehicle, at a time not later than the time when the tax is due in accordance with section 75 ,
(b) the person shall complete such form as may be provided by the Revenue Commissioners for the purpose of this subsection, and
(c) the provisions relating to the recovery and collection of vehicle registration tax shall apply, with such exceptions and modifications (if any) as may be specified in regulations, to tax referred to in this subsection as if it were vehicle registration tax.
(3) Notwithstanding sections 76 and 77 , where a person makes an intra-Community acquisition of a new means of transport which is a vessel or aircraft, in respect of which he or she is not entitled to a deduction under Chapter 1 of Part 8 , then—
(a) the tax shall be payable at a time and in a manner to be determined by regulations, and
(b) the provisions relating to the recovery and collection of a duty of customs shall apply, with such exceptions and modifications (if any) as may be specified in regulations, to tax referred to in this subsection as if it were a duty of customs.
(4) Notwithstanding sections 76 and 77 , where section 11 (2) applies—
(a) the tax shall be payable at the time of payment of the duty of excise on the goods, and
(b) the provisions relating to the recovery and collection of that duty of excise shall apply, with such exceptions and modifications (if any) as may be specified in regulations, to tax referred to in this subsection as if it were that duty of excise.
(5) Notwithstanding sections 76 and 77 , where section 91 applies, the tax shall be payable at the time the VAT return is required to be submitted in accordance with section 91 (6).
num: 80
paragraphs: —(1) A person who satisfies the Revenue Commissioners that—
(a) taking one period with another, at least 90 per cent of the person’s turnover is derived from taxable supplies to persons who are not registered persons, or
(b) the total consideration which the person is entitled to receive in respect of the person’s taxable supplies has not exceeded and is not likely to exceed €1,000,000 in any continuous period of 12 months,
may, in accordance with regulations, be authorised to determine the amount of tax which becomes due by the person during any taxable period (or part thereof) during which the authorisation has effect by reference to the amount of the moneys which the person receives during that taxable period (or part thereof) in respect of taxable supplies.
(2) Where an authorisation to which subsection (1) relates has not been cancelled under subsection (4), then—
(a) the rate of tax due by the person concerned in respect of a supply shall be the rate of tax chargeable at the time the goods or services are supplied,
(b) if tax on a supply has already been due and payable under any other provisions of this Act prior to the issue of that authorisation, tax shall not be due again in respect of any such supply as a result of the application of subsection (1), and
(c) if no tax is due or payable on a supply made prior to the issue of that authorisation, tax shall not be due in respect of any such supply as a result of the application of subsection (1).
(3)(a) The Minister may, by order—
(i) increase the amount specified in subsection (1)(b), or
(ii) where an amount stands specified by virtue of an order under this paragraph, including an order relating to this subparagraph, further increase the amount so specified.
(b) An order under paragraph (a) shall be laid before DÃ¡il Ãireann as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the order is passed by DÃ¡il Ãireann within the next 21 sitting days on which DÃ¡il Ãireann has sat after the order is laid before it, the order shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.
(4) The Revenue Commissioners—
(a) may, in accordance with regulations, cancel an authorisation under subsection (1), and
(b) may, by regulations, exclude from the application of subsection (1) any tax due in respect of specified descriptions of supplies of goods or services and any moneys received in respect of such supplies.
(5) Where an authorisation has issued to any person in accordance with subsection (1) and the person fails to issue a credit note in accordance with section 67 (1)(b) in respect of any supply where the consideration as stated in the invoice issued by that person for that supply is reduced or a discount is allowed, then, at the time when a credit note should have issued in accordance with section 70 (1)—
(a) such tax as is attributable to the reduction or discount shall be treated as being excluded from the application of subsection (1), and
(b) the person shall be liable for that tax as if it were tax due in accordance with Chapter 3 at that time.
(6) This section does not apply to tax provided for by section 3 (b), (d) or (e).
num: 81
paragraphs: —(1) For the purposes of this section—
“accountable person” includes a person who is not a registered person and is in doubt as to whether he or she is an accountable person in respect of a transaction and, in that case, references to a return and records are to be construed as referring to a return that would be due under Chapter 3 and records that would be kept for the purposes of Chapter 7 or section 124 (7), if that person were in fact an accountable person;
“the law” has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (2);
“letter of expression of doubt” means a communication received in legible form which—
(a) sets out full details of the circumstances of the transaction and makes reference to the provisions of the law giving rise to the doubt,
(b) identifies the amount of tax in doubt in respect of the taxable period to which the expression of doubt relates,
(c) is accompanied by supporting documentation as relevant, and
(d) is clearly identified as a letter of expression of doubt for the purposes of this section,
and reference to “an expression of doubt” shall be construed accordingly.
(2)(a) Subject to paragraph (b), where an accountable person is in doubt as to the correct application of any enactment relating to value-added tax (in this section referred to as “the law”) to a transaction which could—
(i) give rise to a liability to tax by that person, or
(ii) affect that person’s liability to tax or entitlement to a deduction or refund of tax,
then the accountable person may, at the same time as the accountable person furnishes to the Collector-General the return due in accordance with Chapter 3 for the period in which the transaction occurred, lodge a letter of expression of doubt with the Revenue Commissioners at the office of the Commissioners which would normally deal with the examination of the records kept by that person in accordance with Chapter 7 or section 124 (7).
(b) This section shall apply only if the return referred to in paragraph (a) is furnished within the time limits prescribed in Chapter 3 .
(3) A person whose expression of doubt concerns whether he or she is an accountable person shall lodge that expression of doubt for the purposes of applying subsection (4) not later than the 19th day of the month following the taxable period in which the transaction giving rise to the expression of doubt occurred.
(4) Subject to subsection (5), where a return and a letter of expression of doubt relating to a transaction are furnished by an accountable person to the Revenue Commissioners in accordance with this section, section 114 shall not apply to any additional liability arising from a notification to that person by the Revenue Commissioners of the correct application of the law to that transaction, on condition that such additional liability is accounted for and remitted to the Collector-General by the accountable person as if it were tax due for the taxable period in which the notification is issued.
(5) Subsection (4) does not apply where the Revenue Commissioners do not accept as genuine an expression of doubt in respect of the application of the law to a transaction, and an expression of doubt shall not be accepted as genuine in particular where the Commissioners—
(a) have issued general guidelines concerning the application of the law in similar circumstances,
(b) are of the opinion that the matter is otherwise sufficiently free from doubt as not to warrant an expression of doubt, or
(c) are of the opinion that the accountable person was acting with a view to the evasion or avoidance of tax.
(6) Where the Revenue Commissioners do not accept an expression of doubt as genuine, they shall notify the accountable person accordingly, and the accountable person shall account for any tax, which was not correctly accounted for in the return referred to in subsection (2), as tax due for the taxable period in which the transaction occurred, and section 114 shall apply accordingly.
(7) An accountable person who is aggrieved by a decision of the Revenue Commissioners that the person’s expression of doubt is not genuine may, by giving notice in writing to the Revenue Commissioners within the period of 21 days after the notification of the decision, require the matter to be referred to the Appeal Commissioners.
(8) A letter of expression of doubt shall be deemed not to have been made unless its receipt is acknowledged by the Revenue Commissioners and that acknowledgement forms part of the records kept by the accountable person for the purposes of Chapter 7 or section 124 (7).
num: 82
paragraphs: —(1) In this section—
“intra-Community supplies of goods” means supplies of goods to a person registered for value-added tax in another Member State;
“prescribed threshold” means—
(a) subject to paragraph (b), €100,000,
(b) on and from 1 January 2012, €50,000.
(2) An accountable person shall, not later than the deadline fixed by this section, lodge with the Revenue Commissioners a statement—
(a) of the person’s intra-Community supplies of goods,
(b) prepared in accordance with, and containing such particulars as may be specified in, regulations (if any).
(3)(a) Subject to paragraph (b), in the case of intra-Community supplies of goods made during a calendar month, the deadline referred to in subsection (2) is the 23rd day of the month immediately following the end of that calendar month.
(b) This subsection does not apply to intra-Community supplies of goods—
(i) in respect of which an authorisation has been given under subsection (4), or
(ii) when an accountable person elects to lodge statements as permitted by subsection (5).
(4) The Revenue Commissioners may, on written request, authorise an accountable person who makes no supplies of the kind referred to in section 83 but who makes intra-Community supplies of goods that do not exceed, or are not likely to exceed, in a calendar year, an amount or amounts specified in regulations (if any), to lodge by 23 January following that calendar year a statement—
(a) setting out details of those intra-Community supplies of goods,
(b) prepared in accordance with, and containing such particulars as may be specified in, regulations (if any).
(5)(a) Subject to paragraph (b), if, when subsection (4) does not apply, the total value of an accountable person’s intra-Community supplies of goods for a period of a calendar quarter, or of any of the previous 4 calendar quarters, does not exceed the prescribed threshold, the person may lodge a statement setting out details of those supplies not later than the 23rd day of the month immediately following the quarter during which the supplies were made.
(b) Where the value of the supplies referred to in paragraph (a) exceeds the prescribed threshold in any month, the deadline for lodging a statement in respect of those supplies is as provided by subsection (3).
(6) An accountable person who has made no intra-Community supplies of goods during a relevant period, but was required to lodge with the Revenue Commissioners a statement in respect of a previous period, shall, unless otherwise authorised by the Commissioners, lodge with them before the relevant deadline a statement to the effect that he or she made no such supplies during that period.
num: 83
paragraphs: —(1) In this section “intra-Community supplies of services” means supplies of services to a taxable person in another Member State or any other person registered for value-added tax in another Member State.
(2) An accountable person shall, not later than the deadline fixed by this section, lodge with the Revenue Commissioners a statement—
(a) of the person’s intra-Community supplies of services where the recipient is liable to pay the tax as provided by Article 196 of the VAT Directive,
(b) prepared in accordance with, and containing such particulars as may be specified in, regulations (if any).
(3) In the case of intra-Community supplies of services made during a calendar quarter, the deadline referred to in subsection (2) is the 23rd day of the month immediately following the end of that quarter, except where the accountable person elects to lodge statements monthly as provided by subsection (4).
(4) An accountable person who makes intra-Community supplies of services may elect to lodge statements of details of those services monthly, in which case the deadline for lodging those statements is not later than the 23rd day of each calendar month immediately following the month in which the supplies are made.
(5) For the purposes of statements to be lodged in accordance with subsection (2), services that are supplied continuously over a period of more than one year, in respect of which no statements of account or payments are made during that year, are to be regarded as being completed at the end of each calendar year until the date when the supply is finally completed.
(6) An accountable person who has made no intra-Community supplies of services to which this section applies during a relevant period, but who was required to lodge with the Revenue Commissioners a statement in respect of a previous period, shall, unless otherwise authorised by the Commissioners, lodge with them before the relevant deadline a statement to the effect that he or she made no such supplies during that period.
num: 84
paragraphs: —(1) Every accountable person shall, in accordance with regulations, keep full and true records of all transactions which affect or may affect his or her liability to tax and entitlement to deductibility.
(2) Every person (other than an accountable person) who supplies goods or services in the course or furtherance of business shall keep all invoices issued to him or her in connection with the supply of goods or services to him or her for the purpose of such business.
(3) The following:
(a) records kept by a person pursuant to this Chapter or section 124 (7) and that are in the power, possession or procurement of the person;
(b) any books, invoices, copies of customs entries, credit notes, debit notes, receipts, accounts, vouchers, bank statements or other documents whatsoever which relate to the supply of goods or services, the intra-Community acquisition of goods, or the importation of goods by the person and that are in the power, possession or procurement of the person; and
(c) in the case of any such book, invoice, credit note, debit note, receipt, account, voucher, or other document, which has been issued by the person to another person, any copy thereof which is in the power, possession or procurement of the person,
shall, subject to subsection (4), be retained in that person’s power, possession or procurement for a period of 6 years from the date of the latest transaction to which the records, invoices, or any of the other documents, relate.
(4) Notwithstanding the retention period specified in subsection (3), the following retention periods shall apply:
(a) where a person acquired or developed immovable goods to which section 4 of the repealed enactment applied, the period for which the person shall retain records pursuant to this Chapter in relation to that person’s acquisition or development of those immovable goods shall be the duration that such person holds a taxable interest in such goods plus a further period of 6 years;
(b) where a person exercised a waiver of exemption from tax in accordance with section 7 of the repealed enactment, the period for which the person shall retain records pursuant to this Chapter shall be the duration of the waiver plus a further period of 6 years.
(5) This Chapter—
(a) shall not require the retention of records or invoices or any of the other documents in respect of which the Revenue Commissioners notify the person concerned that retention is not required, and
(b) shall not apply to the books and papers of a company which have been disposed of in accordance with section 305 (1) of the Companies Act 1963 .
num: 85
paragraphs: —(1) The requirement to keep records in accordance with this Chapter applies to—
(a) a record relating to exercising and terminating a landlord’s option to tax,
(b) a capital good record referred to in Chapter 2 of Part 8 ,
(c) a record relating to a joint option for taxation, and
(d) the document relating to an assignment or surrender referred to in section 95 (9)(a).
(2)(a) An accountable person who claims a deduction of tax pursuant to Chapter 1 of Part 8 in respect of qualifying accommodation within the meaning of section 60 (1) shall retain full and true records in relation to the attendance by the delegate at the relevant qualifying conference (including the details referred to in section 60 (1) issued to the accountable person by the person responsible for organising the conference).
(b) A person responsible for organising a qualifying conference within the meaning of section 60 (1) and to which section 60 (2)(a)(i) relates shall keep full and true records of each such conference organised by the person.
(3) Every person who trades in investment gold (within the meaning of section 90 ) shall, in accordance with regulations, keep full and true records of that person’s transactions in investment gold.
num: 86
paragraphs: —(1) Where a flat-rate farmer supplies agricultural produce or an agricultural service to a person, the farmer shall, subject to section 68 (1), issue to the person an invoice indicating the consideration (exclusive of the flat-rate addition) in respect of the supply and an amount (in this Act referred to as a “flat-rate addition”) equal to 5.2 per cent of that consideration (exclusive of the flat-rate addition).
(2) Where, in relation to a supply of agricultural produce or an agricultural service by a flat-rate farmer, the farmer issues an invoice in which the flat-rate addition is stated separately, that addition is recoverable by the farmer as part of the consideration for the transaction.
num: 87
paragraphs: —(1) In this section—
“agricultural machinery” means machinery or equipment (other than a motor vehicle within the meaning of section 60 (1)) which has been used by a flat-rate farmer for the purpose of that farmer’s Annex VII activity in circumstances where any tax charged on the supply of that machinery or equipment to the farmer would have been deductible by him or her if he or she had elected to be an accountable person at the time of that supply of the machinery or equipment to the farmer;
num: 88
paragraphs: —(1) In this section—
“bought-in services” means goods or services which a travel agent purchases for the direct benefit of a traveller—
(a) from another taxable person, or
(b) from a person engaged in business outside the State;
“margin scheme services” means bought-in services supplied by a travel agent to a traveller;
“travel agent” means a taxable person who acts as a principal in the supply to a traveller of margin scheme services, and for the purposes of this section travel agent includes tour operator;
“travel agent’s margin”, in relation to a supply of margin scheme services, means an amount which is calculated in accordance with the formula—
A — B
where—
A is the total consideration which the travel agent becomes entitled to receive in respect of or in relation to that supply of margin scheme services, including all taxes, commissions, costs and charges whatsoever and value-added tax payable in respect of that supply, and
B is the amount payable by the travel agent to a supplier in respect of bought-in services included in that supply of margin scheme services to the traveller, but any bought-in services purchased by the travel agent prior to 1 January 2010 in respect of which that travel agent claims deductibility in accordance with Chapter 1 of Part 8 shall be disregarded in calculating the margin,
and if that B is greater than that A, then the travel agent’s margin in respect of that supply shall be deemed to be nil;
“travel agent’s margin scheme” means the special arrangements for the taxation of margin scheme services.
(2) A supply of margin scheme services by a travel agent to a traveller in respect of a journey shall be treated as a single supply.
(3) The place of supply of margin scheme services is—
(a) unless paragraph (b) applies, the place where a travel agent has established the travel agent’s business,
(b) if those services are provided from a fixed establishment of that travel agent located in a place other than the place where the travel agent has established his or her business, the place where that fixed establishment is located.
(4) The travel agent’s margin scheme shall apply to the supply of margin scheme services in the State.
(5) Notwithstanding Chapter 1 of Part 5 , the amount on which tax is chargeable by virtue of section 2(1)(a) on a supply of margin scheme services shall be the travel agent’s margin less the amount of tax included in that margin.
(6) Notwithstanding sections 57 , 58 , 102 and 104 (1), (4) and (5) and Chapter 1 of Part 8 , a travel agent shall not be entitled to a deduction or a refund of tax borne or paid in respect of bought-in services supplied by the travel agent as margin scheme services.
(7) Where a travel agent supplies margin scheme services together with other goods or services to a traveller for a total consideration, then—
(a) that total consideration shall be apportioned by the travel agent so as to correctly reflect the ratio which the value of those margin scheme services bears to that total consideration, and
(b) the proportion of that total consideration relating to the value of the margin scheme services shall be subject to the travel agent’s margin scheme.
(8) Margin scheme services shall be treated as intermediary services when the bought-in services are performed outside the Community.
(9) Where a travel agent makes a supply of margin scheme services that includes some services that are treated as intermediary services in accordance with subsection (8), then the total travel agent’s margin in respect of that supply shall be apportioned by the travel agent so as to correctly reflect the ratio which the cost to that travel agent of the bought-in services used in the margin scheme services that are treated as intermediary services in that supply bears to the total cost to that travel agent of all bought-in services used in making that supply of margin scheme services.
(10) A travel agent, being an accountable person who supplies margin scheme services, shall include the tax due on the person’s supplies of margin scheme services for a taxable period in the return that that person is required to furnish in accordance with section 76 or 77 .
(11) The Revenue Commissioners may make such regulations as they consider necessary for the purposes of the operation of this section, including provisions for simplified accounting arrangements.
num: 89
paragraphs: —(1) In this section—
“auctioneer” means an accountable person who, in the course or furtherance of business, acting on behalf of another person pursuant to a contract under which commission is payable on purchase or sale, offers tangible movable goods for sale by public auction with a view to handing them over to the highest bidder;
“auctioneer’s margin” means an amount which is equal to the difference between the total amount, including any taxes, commissions, costs and charges whatsoever, payable by the purchaser to the auctioneer in respect of the auction of auction scheme goods and the amount payable by the auctioneer to the principal in respect of the supply of those goods and shall be deemed to be inclusive of tax;
“auction scheme” means the special arrangements for the taxation of supplies of auction scheme goods;
“auction scheme goods” means any works of art, collectors’ items, antiques or second-hand goods sold by an auctioneer at a public auction while acting on behalf of a principal who is—
(a) a person who was not entitled to deduct, under Chapter 1 of Part 8 , any tax in respect of that person’s purchase, intra-Community acquisition or importation of those goods where that person is neither—
(i) a person referred to in paragraph (d), nor
(ii) an accountable person who acquired those goods from—
(I) an auctioneer who applied the auction scheme to the supply of those goods to that accountable person, or
(II) a taxable dealer who applied the margin scheme to the supply of those goods to that accountable person,
(b) an insurer to whom section 20 (3) applies—
(i) who took possession of those goods in connection with the settlement of a claim under a policy of insurance, and
(ii) whose disposal of the goods is deemed not to be a supply of the goods as provided by section 20 (3),
(c) a person in another Member State who was not entitled to deduct, under the provisions implementing Articles 167, 173, 176 and 177 of the VAT Directive, in that Member State, any value-added tax referred to in that Directive in respect of that person’s purchase, intra-Community acquisition or importation of those goods, or
(d) a taxable dealer who applied the margin scheme to the supply of those goods or applied the provisions implementing Articles 4 and 35, first subparagraph of Article 139(3) and Articles 311 to 325 and 333 to 340 of the VAT Directive, in another Member State to the supply of those goods;
“principal” means the person on whose behalf an auctioneer auctions goods;
“purchaser” means the person to whom an auctioneer supplies auction scheme goods.
(2) Subject to and in accordance with this section, an auctioneer shall apply the auction scheme to any supply of auction scheme goods.
(3) The amount on which tax is chargeable in accordance with section 3 (a) or (c) on a supply by an auctioneer of auction scheme goods is, notwithstanding Chapter 1 of Part 5 , the auctioneer’s margin less the amount of tax included in that margin.
(4) Where auction scheme goods are auctioned, the auctioneer shall issue, subject to such conditions (if any) as may be specified in regulations, to both the principal and the purchaser, invoices or documents in lieu thereof setting out the relevant details in respect of the supply of the auction scheme goods.
(5) Notwithstanding Chapter 2 of Part 9 , an auctioneer shall not, in relation to any supply to which the auction scheme has been applied, indicate separately the amount of tax chargeable in respect of the supply on any invoice or other document in lieu thereof issued in accordance with that Chapter.
(6) Where auction scheme goods are auctioned by an auctioneer on behalf of a principal who is an accountable person—
(a) the invoice or document in lieu thereof issued to the principal in accordance with subsection (4) shall be deemed to be an invoice for the purposes of Chapter 2 of Part 9 , and
(b) that principal shall be deemed to have issued such invoice.
num: 90
paragraphs: —(1)(a) In this section—
“intermediary” means a person who intervenes for another person in a supply of investment gold while acting in the name and for the account of that other person;
“investment gold” means—
(i) gold in the form of—
(I) a bar, or
(II) a wafer,
of a weight accepted by a bullion market and of a purity equal to or greater than 995 parts per 1,000 parts, and
(ii) gold coins which—
(I) are of a purity equal to or greater than 900 parts per 1,000 parts,
(II) are minted after 1800,
(III) are or have been legal tender in their country of origin, and
(IV) are normally sold at a price which does not exceed the open market value of the gold contained in the coins by more than 80 per cent.
(b) For the purposes of the definition of “investment gold” in paragraph (a), gold coins which are listed in the “C” series of the Official Journal of the European Communities as fulfilling the criteria referred to in that definition in respect of gold coins shall be deemed to fulfil those criteria for the whole year for which the list is published.
(2) This section shall apply to—
(a) investment gold, including investment gold which is represented by securities or represented by certificates for allocated or unallocated gold or traded on gold accounts and including, in particular, gold loans and swaps, involving a right of ownership or a claim in respect of investment gold, and
(b) transactions concerning investment gold involving futures and forward contracts leading to a transfer of a right of ownership or a claim in respect of investment gold.
(3) Notwithstanding section 52 (1), a person who produces investment gold or transforms any gold into investment gold may, in accordance with conditions set out in regulations, waive the person’s right to exemption from tax on a supply of investment gold to another person who is engaged in the supply of goods and services in the course or furtherance of business.
(4) Where a person waives, in accordance with subsection (3), the person’s right to exemption from tax in respect of a supply of investment gold, an intermediary who supplies services in respect of that supply of investment gold may, in accordance with conditions set out in regulations, waive the intermediary’s right to exemption from tax in respect of those services.
(5)(a) Where a person waives, in accordance with subsection (3), the person’s right to exemption from tax in respect of a supply of investment gold, then, for the purposes of this Act—
(i) the person to whom the supply of investment gold is made shall, in relation thereto—
(I) be an accountable person, and
(II) be liable to pay the tax chargeable on that supply as if such accountable person had made that supply of investment gold for consideration in the course or furtherance of business,
and
(ii) the person who waived the right to exemption in respect of that supply shall not be liable to pay that tax.
(b) Where a person is liable for tax in accordance with paragraph (a) in respect of a supply of investment gold, the person shall, notwithstanding Chapter 1 of Part 8 , be entitled, in computing the amount of tax payable by that person in respect of the taxable period in which that liability to tax arises, to deduct the tax for which he or she is liable on that supply if his or her subsequent supply of that investment gold is exempt from tax.
(6)(a) An accountable person may, in computing the amount of tax payable by the accountable person in respect of any taxable period and notwithstanding Chapter 1 of Part 8 , deduct—
(i) the tax charged to the accountable person during that period by other accountable persons by means of invoices, prepared in the manner prescribed by regulations, in respect of supplies of gold to such person,
(ii) the tax chargeable during that period, being tax for which the accountable person is liable in respect of intra-Community acquisitions of gold, and
(iii) the tax paid by the accountable person, or deferred, as established from the relevant customs documents kept by him or her in accordance with section 84 (3) in respect of gold imported by him or her in that period,
where that gold is subsequently transformed into investment gold and the accountable person’s subsequent supply of that investment gold is exempt from tax.
(b) A person may claim, in accordance with regulations, a refund of—
(i) the tax charged to the person on the purchase of gold (other than investment gold) by him or her,
(ii) the tax chargeable to the person on the intra-Community acquisition of gold (other than investment gold) by him or her, and
(iii) the tax paid or deferred on the importation by the person of gold (other than investment gold),
where that gold is subsequently transformed into investment gold and that person’s subsequent supply of that investment gold is exempt from tax.
(7)(a) An accountable person may, in computing the amount of tax payable by the accountable person in respect of a taxable period and notwithstanding Chapter 1 of Part 8 , deduct the tax charged to that accountable person during that period by other accountable persons by means of invoices, prepared in the manner prescribed by regulations, in respect of the supply to the first-mentioned accountable person of services consisting of a change of form, weight or purity of gold where that accountable person’s subsequent supply of that gold is exempt from tax.
(b) A person may claim, in accordance with regulations, a refund of the tax charged to the person in respect of the supply to him or her of services consisting of a change of form, weight or purity of gold where his or her subsequent supply of that gold is exempt from tax.
(8)(a) An accountable person who produces investment gold or transforms any gold into investment gold may, in computing the amount of tax payable by the accountable person in respect of a taxable period and notwithstanding Chapter 1 of Part 8 , deduct—
(i) the tax charged to that accountable person during that period by other accountable persons by means of invoices, prepared in the manner prescribed by regulations, in respect of supplies of goods or services to the first-mentioned accountable person,
(ii) the tax chargeable during that period, being tax for which that accountable person is liable in respect of intra-Community acquisitions of goods, and
(iii) the tax paid by that accountable person, or deferred, as established from the relevant customs documents kept by him or her in accordance with section 84 (3) in respect of goods imported by him or her in that period,
where those goods or services are linked to the production or transformation of that gold and that accountable person’s subsequent supply of that investment gold is exempt from tax.
(b) A person who produces investment gold or transforms any gold into investment gold may claim, in accordance with regulations, a refund of—
(i) the tax charged to the person on the purchase by him or her of goods or services,
(ii) the tax chargeable to the person on the intra-Community acquisition of goods by him or her, and
(iii) the tax paid or deferred by the person on the importation of goods by him or her,
where those goods or services are linked to the production or transformation of that gold and that person’s subsequent supply of that gold is exempt from tax.
(9) Every trader in investment gold shall—
(a) establish the identity of any person to whom that trader supplies investment gold when the total consideration which the trader is entitled to receive in respect of such supply, or a series of such supplies which are or appear to be linked, amounts to at least €15,000, and
(b) retain a copy of all documents used to identify such person to whom the investment gold is so supplied as if they were records to be kept in accordance with section 85 (3).
num: 91
paragraphs: —(1) In this section—
“electronic services scheme” means the special arrangements for the taxation of electronically supplied services provided for in Articles 358 to 369 of the VAT Directive;
“EU value-added tax” means value-added tax referred to in the VAT Directive and includes tax within the meaning of section 2 ;
“identified person” has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (5);
“Member State of consumption” means the Member State in which the supply of the electronic services takes place according to Article 58 of the VAT Directive;
“Member State of identification” means the Member State which the non-established person chooses to contact to state when his or her activity within the Community commences in accordance with the provisions of the electronic services scheme;
“national tax number” means a number (whether consisting of either or both numbers and letters) assigned to a non-established person by his or her own national taxation authorities;
“non-established person” means a person who has his or her establishment outside the Community and has not also an establishment in the Community and who is not otherwise required to be a person registered for value-added tax within the meaning of section 2 ;
“scheme participant” means a non-established person who supplies electronic services into the Community and who opts to use the electronic services scheme in any Member State;
“VAT return” means the statement containing the information necessary to establish the amount of EU value-added tax that has become chargeable in each Member State under the electronic services scheme.
(2) Subject to and in accordance with this section, a non-established person may opt to apply the electronic services scheme to his or her supplies of electronic services to non-taxable persons within the Community.
(3) The Revenue Commissioners shall set up and maintain a register (referred to in this section as an “identification register”) of non-established persons who are identified in the State for the purposes of the electronic services scheme.
(4) A non-established person who opts to be identified in the State for the purposes of the electronic services scheme shall inform the Revenue Commissioners, by electronic means in a manner specified by them, when his or her taxable activity commences and shall, at the same time, furnish them electronically with the following information:
(a) the person’s name and postal address;
(b) his or her electronic addresses, including website addresses;
(c) his or her national tax number (if any); and
(d) a statement that the person is not a person registered, or otherwise identified, for value-added tax purposes within the Community.
(5)(a) Where a person has furnished the particulars required under subsection (4), the Revenue Commissioners shall—
(i) register that person in accordance with subsection (3),
(ii) allocate to that person an identification number, and
(iii) notify that person electronically of that identification number.
(b) For the purposes of this section, a person to whom such an identification number has been allocated shall be referred to as an “identified person”.
(6)(a) Subject to paragraph (b), an identified person shall, within 20 days immediately following the end of each calendar quarter—
(i) furnish by electronic means to the Revenue Commissioners a VAT return, prepared in accordance with, and containing such particulars as are specified in, subsection (7), in respect of supplies made in the Community in that quarter, and
(ii) remit to the Revenue Commissioners, at the same time as so furnishing such return, into a bank account designated by them and denominated in euro, the amount of EU value-added tax (if any) payable by that person in respect of that quarter in relation to—
(I) supplies made in the State in accordance with section 34 (l), and
(II) supplies made in other Member States in accordance with the provisions implementing Article 58 of the VAT Directive in such other Member States.
(b) Where an identified person has not made any such electronic supplies to non-taxable persons into the Community within a calendar quarter, he or she shall furnish a nil VAT return in respect of that quarter.
(7) The VAT return referred to in subsection (6) shall be made in euro and shall contain—
(a) the person’s identification number,
(b) for each Member State of consumption where EU value-added tax has become due—
(i) the total value, exclusive of EU value-added tax, of supplies of electronic services for the quarter,
(ii) the amount of such value liable to EU value-added tax at the applicable rate, and
(iii) the amount of EU value-added tax corresponding to such value at the applicable rate,
and
(c) the total EU value-added tax due (if any).
(8) Notwithstanding section 37 (4), where supplies have been made using a currency other than the euro, the exchange rate to be used for the purposes of expressing the corresponding amount in euro on the VAT return shall be that published by the European Central Bank for the last date of the calendar quarter for which the VAT return relates or, if there is no publication on that date, on the next day of publication.
(9) Notwithstanding Chapter 1 of Part 8 , a scheme participant who supplies services which are deemed in accordance with section 34 (l) to be supplied in the State—
(a) shall not, in computing the amount of tax payable by him or her in respect of such supplies, be entitled to deduct any tax borne or paid in relation to those supplies, but
(b) shall be entitled to claim a refund of such tax in accordance with, and using the rules applicable to, Council Directive No. 86/560/EEC of 17 November 1986 6 , notwithstanding Articles 2(2), 2(3) and 4(2) of that Directive.
(10) A scheme participant who supplies services which are deemed in accordance with section 34 (l) to be supplied in the State shall be deemed to have fulfilled his or her obligations under Chapters 1, 3 and 7 of Part 9 if such participant has accounted in full in respect of such supplies in any Member State under the provisions of the electronic services scheme.
(11) For the purposes of this Act, a VAT return required to be furnished in accordance with the electronic services scheme shall, in so far as it relates to supplies made in accordance with section 34 (l), be treated, with any necessary modifications, as if it were a return required to be furnished in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 9 .
(12)(a) An identified person shall—
(i) keep full and true records of all transactions covered by the electronic services scheme which affect his or her liability to EU value-added tax,
(ii) make such records available, by electronic means and on request, to the Revenue Commissioners,
(iii) make such records available, by electronic means and on request, to all Member States of consumption, and
(iv) notwithstanding Chapter 7 of Part 9 , retain such records for each transaction for a period of 10 years from the end of the year when that transaction occurred.
(b) A scheme participant who is deemed to supply services in the State in accordance with section 34 (l) shall be bound by the requirements of subparagraphs (i), (ii) and (iv) in relation to such supplies.
(13) An identified person shall notify the Revenue Commissioners electronically—
(a) of any changes in the information submitted under subsection (4), and
(b) if his or her taxable activity ceases or changes to the extent that he or she no longer qualifies for the electronic services scheme.
(14) The Revenue Commissioners shall exclude an identified person from the identification register if—
(a) they have reasonable grounds to believe that the person’s taxable activities have ended, or
(b) the identified person—
(i) notifies the Commissioners that he or she no longer supplies electronic services,
(ii) no longer fulfils the requirements necessary to be allowed to use the electronic services scheme, or
(iii) persistently fails to comply with the provisions of the electronic services scheme.
(15) The Revenue Commissioners may make regulations as necessary for the purpose of giving effect to the electronic services scheme.
6 OJ No. L326, 21.11.1986, p.40
num: 92
paragraphs: —(1) In this section—
“alcohol products” has the meaning assigned to it by section 73 (1) of the Finance Act 2003 ;
“suspension arrangement” means an arrangement under which excisable products are produced, processed, held or moved, excise duty being suspended.
(2) Where alcohol products are supplied while being held under a suspension arrangement, then—
(a) any such supply effected while the products are held under that arrangement (other than the last such supply in the State) shall be deemed not to be a supply for the purposes of this Act other than for the purposes of Chapter 1 of Part 8 , and
(b) any previous—
(i) intra-Community acquisition, or
(ii) importation,
of such products shall be disregarded for the purposes of this Act.
(3)(a) Subject to paragraph (b), where tax is chargeable on a supply referred to in subsection (2), then, notwithstanding section 74 (1), the tax on that supply shall be due at the same time as the duty of excise on the products is due.
num: 93
paragraphs: —(1)(a) In this section—
(i) “interest”, in relation to immovable goods—
(I) subject to clause (II), means an estate or interest in those goods which, when it was created, was for a period of at least 10 years or, if it was for a period of less than 10 years, its terms contained an option for the person in whose favour the interest was created to extend it to a period of at least 10 years,
(II) does not include a mortgage,
(ii) a reference to the disposal of an interest includes a reference to the creation of an interest, and
(iii) an interval of the type referred to in section 4(2A) of the repealed enactment shall be deemed to be an interest for the purposes of this section.
(b) Where an interest is created and, at the date of its creation, its terms contain one or more options for the person in whose favour the interest was so created to extend the interest, then that interest shall be deemed to be for the period from the date of creation of that interest to the date that that interest would expire if those options were so exercised.
(c) This section applies to immovable goods—
(i) which have been developed by or on behalf of the person supplying them, or
(ii) in respect of which the person supplying them was, or would, but for the operation of section 20 (2)(c), have been at any time entitled to claim a deduction under Chapter 1 of Part 8 for any tax borne or paid in relation to a supply or development of them.
(2)(a)(i) Subject to subparagraph (ii), where an interest in immovable goods was created prior to 1 July 2008 in such circumstances that a reversion on that interest (in this subsection referred to as a “reversionary interest”) was created and retained, then any subsequent disposal to another person of the reversionary interest or of an interest derived entirely from that reversionary interest shall be deemed to be a supply of immovable goods to which tax is not charged if, since the date the first-mentioned interest was created, those goods have not been developed by, on behalf of, or to the benefit of, the person making such subsequent disposal.
(ii) This subsection shall not be construed as applying to a disposal of an interest which includes an interval.
(b) For the purposes of this subsection, the Revenue Commissioners may make regulations specifying the circumstances or conditions under which development work on immovable goods is not treated as being on behalf of, or to the benefit of, a person.
(3)(a) For the purposes of this subsection—
“landlord” has the meaning assigned to it by paragraph (b);
“post-letting expenses”, in relation to an interest in immovable goods—
(i) subject to subparagraph (ii), means expenses which the landlord incurs—
(I) in carrying out services which the landlord is obliged to carry out under the terms and conditions of the written contract entered into on the disposal of the interest which was chargeable to tax (other than transactions in relation to which the obligation to perform is not reflected in the consideration on which tax was charged on the disposal of that interest),
(II) which directly relate to the collection of rent arising under the contract referred to in clause (I),
(III) which directly relate to a review of rent where the terms and conditions of the contract referred to in clause (I) provide for such a review, or
(IV) which directly relate to the exercise of an option to extend the interest or to exercise a break-clause in relation to that interest where the terms and conditions of the contract referred to in clause (I) provide for such an option or such a break-clause,
(ii) do not include any expenses relating to goods or services of the type specified in section 60 (2).
(b) Where—
(i) an interest in immovable goods was disposed of prior to 1 July 2008,
(ii) that disposal was chargeable to tax, and
(iii) the person who acquired that interest is obliged to pay rent to another person (in this subsection referred to as the “landlord”) under the terms and conditions laid down in respect of that interest,
then the landlord—
(I) shall, notwithstanding Part 2 , be deemed not to be an accountable person in respect of transactions in relation to those immovable goods other than—
(A) supplies of those immovable goods on which tax was chargeable in accordance with section 4 of the repealed enactment,
(B) supplies of other goods or services effected for consideration by the landlord, or
(C) post-letting expenses in respect of that interest,
(II) shall not be entitled to deduct tax in respect of transactions in relation to those immovable goods other than—
(A) supplies of those immovable goods on which tax was chargeable in accordance with section 4 (other than subsection (4) of that section) of the repealed enactment,
(B) supplies of other goods or services effected for consideration by the landlord, or
(C) post-letting expenses in respect of that interest,
(III) shall be deemed, where the landlord is not the person who made the disposal of the interest, to be an accountable person in respect of post-letting expenses in relation to that interest, and
(IV) shall, in relation to those post-letting expenses, be entitled to deduct tax, in accordance with Chapter 1 of Part 8 , as if those post-letting expenses were for the purposes of the landlord’s taxable supplies.
num: 94
paragraphs: —(1) In this section—
“completed”, in respect of immovable goods, means that the development of those goods has reached the state, apart from only such finishing or fitting work that would normally be carried out by or on behalf of the person who will use them, where the goods can effectively be used for the purposes for which the goods were designed, and the utility services required for those purposes are connected to the goods;
“occupied”, in respect of immovable goods, means—
(a) occupied and fully in use following completion, where that use is one for which planning permission for the development of those goods was granted, and
(b) where those goods are let, occupied and fully in such use by the tenant.
(2) Subject to subsections (3), (5), (8) and (9) and section 95 (7)(a), tax is not chargeable on the supply of immovable goods—
(a) that have not been developed within 20 years prior to that supply,
(b) being completed immovable goods, the most recent completion of which occurred more than 5 years prior to that supply, and those goods have not been developed within that 5 year period,
(c) being completed immovable goods that have not been developed since the most recent completion of those goods, where that supply—
(i) occurs after the immovable goods have been occupied for an aggregate of at least 24 months following the most recent completion of those goods, and
(ii) takes place after a previous supply of those goods on which tax was chargeable and that previous supply—
(I) took place after the most recent completion of those goods, and
(II) was a transaction between persons who were not connected within the meaning of section 97 ,
(d) being a building that was completed more than 5 years prior to that supply and on which development was carried out in the 5 years prior to that supply where—
(i) such development did not and was not intended to adapt the building for a materially altered use, and
(ii) the cost of such development did not exceed 25 per cent of the consideration for that supply,
or
(e) being a building that was completed within the 5 years prior to that supply where—
(i) the building had been occupied for an aggregate of at least 24 months following that completion,
(ii) that supply takes place after a previous supply of the building on which tax was chargeable and that previous supply—
(I) took place after that completion of the building, and
(II) was a transaction between persons who were not connected within the meaning of section 97 ,
and
(iii) if any development of that building occurred after that completion—
(I) such development did not and was not intended to adapt the building for a materially altered use, and
(II) the cost of such development did not exceed 25 per cent of the consideration for that supply.
(3) Where a person supplies immovable goods to another person and in connection with that supply a taxable person enters into an agreement with that other person or with a person connected with that other person to carry out a development in relation to those immovable goods, then—
(a) the person who supplies the goods shall, in relation to that supply, be deemed to be a taxable person,
(b) the supply of the goods shall be deemed to be a supply to which section 3 applies, and
(c) subsection (2) does not apply to that supply.
(4) Section 6 (1) and (2) does not apply in relation to a person who makes a supply of immovable goods.
(5) Subject to subsection (9), where a taxable person who carries on a business in the State supplies immovable goods to another taxable person who carries on a business in the State in circumstances where that supply would otherwise be exempted because of subsection (2), or section 95 (3) or (7)(b), then, notwithstanding those provisions, tax is chargeable on that supply, but only if the supplier and the taxable person to whom the supply is made have, no later than the 15th day of the month after the month during which the supply occurred, entered into an agreement in writing to opt to have tax chargeable on that supply (in this Act referred to as a “joint option for taxation”).
(6) Where a joint option for taxation is exercised in accordance with subsection (5), then—
(a) the person to whom the supply is made shall, in relation to that supply, be an accountable person and shall be liable to pay the tax chargeable on that supply as if that person supplied those goods, and
(b) the person who made the supply shall not be accountable for or liable to pay such tax.
(7)(a) In this subsection—
“owner” means the accountable person referred to in section 22 (3);
“purchaser” means the person to whom the immovable goods that are referred to in paragraph (b) are supplied;
“vendor” means the person referred to in section 22 (3), not being the accountable person referred to in that section, who disposes of the immovable goods that are referred to in paragraph (b).
(b) Where a supply of immovable goods is a supply to which section 22 (3) applies and that supply would otherwise be exempted because of subsection (2), or section 95 (3) or (7)(b), then, notwithstanding those provisions, tax is chargeable on that supply where—
(i) the purchaser is a taxable person, and
(ii) the vendor and the purchaser have, no later than the 15th day of the month after the month during which the supply occurred, entered into an agreement in writing to opt to have tax chargeable on that supply.
(c) Where paragraph (b) applies—
(i) the purchaser shall, in relation to that supply, be an accountable person and shall be liable to pay the tax chargeable on that supply as if that purchaser supplied those goods,
(ii) neither the vendor nor the owner shall be accountable for or liable to pay that tax,
and
(iii) sections 65 (4) and 76 (2) shall not apply.
(d) Paragraph (b) shall not apply where the purchaser is a person connected (within the meaning of section 97 (3)) with either the vendor or the owner.
(e) Where a supply of immovable goods is a supply to which section 22 (3) applies and that supply would otherwise be exempted because of subsection (2), then, notwithstanding that provision, tax is chargeable on that supply where—
(i) the immovable goods are buildings designed as or capable of being used as a dwelling,
(ii) the owner is a person who developed those immovable goods in the course of a business of developing immovable goods or is a person connected with that person within the meaning of section 97 (3), and
(iii) the owner was entitled to a deduction under Chapter 1 of Part 8 for tax chargeable to that person in respect of that owner’s acquisition or development of those immovable goods.
(8)(a) In this subsection and in subsection (9)—
“recipient” has the meaning assigned to it by section 16 (1)(a).
“relevant supply” has the meaning assigned to it by section 16 (1)(a).
(b) Where a taxable person supplies immovable goods to another person in circumstances where that supply would otherwise be exempt in accordance with subsection (2), tax shall, notwithstanding that subsection, be chargeable on that supply where—
(i) the immovable goods are buildings designed as or capable of being used as a dwelling,
(ii) the person who makes that supply is a person who developed the immovable goods in the course of a business of developing immovable goods or a person connected with that person within the meaning of section 97 (3), and
(iii) the person who developed those immovable goods was entitled to a deduction under Chapter 1 of Part 8 for tax chargeable to that person in respect of that person’s acquisition or development of those immovable goods.
(c) In the case of a building to which this subsection would apply if the building were supplied by the taxable person at any time during the capital goods scheme adjustment period for that building—
(i) section 64 (4) and (5) shall not apply, and
(ii) notwithstanding section 64 (2), the proportion of total tax incurred that is deductible by that person shall be treated as the initial interval proportion of deductible use.
(d) Where a relevant supply is a supply of immovable goods to which this subsection would apply, the recipient shall be treated thereafter, for the purposes of this subsection in respect of those immovable goods, as if that recipient were a person connected (within the meaning of section 97 (3)) to the person who developed those immovable goods.
(9)(a) Where a relevant supply occurs and that supply would otherwise be exempt in accordance with subsection (2), then—
(i) the recipient may opt to tax that supply (in this subsection referred to as an “option for taxation”), and
(ii) if that option is exercised—
(I) notwithstanding subsection (2), tax shall be chargeable on that supply, and
(II) subsection (5) shall not apply.
(b) The option for taxation shall not apply to relevant supplies that are exempt in accordance with section 93 (2) or 95 (3) or (7)(b).
(c) The option for taxation shall be deemed to be exercised by the recipient in relation to a relevant supply which would otherwise be exempt in accordance with subsection (2)(b) to (e).
num: 95
paragraphs: —(1) This section applies to—
(a) immovable goods which are acquired or developed by a taxable person prior to 1 July 2008, being completed immovable goods before 1 July 2008, and have not been disposed of by the taxable person prior to that date, until such time as those goods have been disposed of by that taxable person on or after that date, and
(b) an interest in immovable goods within the meaning of section 93 (other than a freehold interest or a freehold equivalent interest) created by a taxable person prior to 1 July 2008 and held by a taxable person on 1 July 2008 and the reversionary interest (within the meaning of section 93 (2)) on that interest until that interest is surrendered after 1 July 2008.
(2) Where an interest to which subsection (1)(b) applies is surrendered, then, for the purposes of the application of Chapter 2 of Part 8 in respect of the immovable goods concerned—
(a) the total tax incurred shall include the amount of tax chargeable on the surrender in accordance with subsection (8) and shall not include tax incurred prior to the creation of the surrendered interest, and
(b) the adjustment period shall consist of the number of intervals specified in subsection (12)(c)(iv) and the initial interval shall begin on the date of that surrender.
(3) In the case of a supply of immovable goods to which subsection (1)(a) applies, being completed immovable goods within the meaning of section 94 —
(a) where the person supplying those goods had no right to deduct under section 12 of the repealed enactment in relation to the tax chargeable on the acquisition or development of those goods prior to 1 July 2008, and
(b) if any subsequent development of those immovable goods occurs on or after 1 July 2008—
(i) that development does not and is not intended to adapt the immovable goods for a materially altered use, and
(ii) the cost of that development does not exceed 25 per cent of the consideration for that supply,
then, subject to section 94 (3), that supply is not chargeable to tax but a joint option for taxation may be exercised in respect of that supply in accordance with section 94 (5) and that tax is payable in accordance with section 94 (6).
(4)(a) Where a person referred to in subsection (1)—
(i) acquired, developed or has an interest in immovable goods to which this section applies,
(ii) was entitled to deduct tax, in accordance with section 12 of the repealed enactment, on that person’s acquisition or development of those goods, and
num: 96
paragraphs: —(1) In this section “waiver” means a waiver of exemption from tax under section 7(1) of the repealed enactment.
(2) A waiver shall cease to have effect at the end of the taxable period during which it is cancelled in accordance with subsection (3).
(3) Provision may be made by regulations for the cancellation, at the request of a person or in accordance with subsection (8) or (12), of a waiver by the person and for the payment by that person to the Revenue Commissioners as a condition of cancellation of such sum (if any) as when added to the total amount of tax (if any) due by him or her in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 9 in relation to the supply of services by him or her to which the waiver applied is equal to the total of—
(a) the amount of tax deducted by the person in accordance with Chapter 1 of Part 8 in respect of tax borne or paid in relation to the supply of such services,
(b) the amount of tax deducted by the person in accordance with section 12 of the repealed enactment, prior to the commencement of the letting of the immovable goods to which the waiver relates, in respect of or in relation to his or her acquisition of his or her interest in, or his or her development of, those immovable goods,
(c) the amount of tax that would have been deductible by the person in accordance with section 12 of the repealed enactment if tax had been chargeable on the transfer of ownership of goods to him or her in respect of which section 20 (2)(c) was applied, and those goods were used by him or her in the supply of such services, and
(d) the amount of tax that would have been deductible by that person in accordance with section 12 of the repealed enactment if—
num: 97
paragraphs: —(1)(a)(i) Tax shall be chargeable in accordance with this Act on the supply of a service to which paragraph 11 of Schedule 1 relates (in this section referred to as a “letting”) where, subject to subsections (2) and (4), the supplier (in this section referred to as a “landlord”) opts to make that letting so chargeable.
(ii) A landlord who exercises such option (in this Act referred to as a “landlord’s option to tax”) shall, notwithstanding section 6 (1) and (2), be an accountable person and liable to account for the tax on that letting in accordance with this Act, and that letting shall not be a supply to which section 52 applies.
(b) Where a taxable person is entitled to deduct tax on the acquisition or development of immovable goods on the basis that the goods will be used for the purpose of a letting or lettings in respect of which a landlord’s option to tax will apply, then—
(i) the person shall be treated as having exercised the landlord’s option to tax in respect of any lettings of those immovable goods, and
(ii) that option shall be deemed to continue in place until that person makes a letting in respect of which neither of the conditions of paragraph (c) is fulfilled.
(c) A landlord’s option to tax in respect of a letting is exercised by—
(i) a provision in writing in a letting agreement between the landlord and the person to whom the letting is made (in this section referred to as a “tenant”) that tax is chargeable on the rent, or
(ii) the issuing by the landlord of a document to the tenant giving notification that tax is chargeable on the letting.
(d) A landlord’s option to tax in respect of a letting is terminated—
(i) in the case of an option exercised in accordance with paragraph (b), by making a letting of the immovable goods referred to in that paragraph in respect of which neither of the conditions of paragraph (c) is fulfilled,
(ii) in the case of an option exercised in accordance with paragraph (c), by—
(I) an agreement in writing between the landlord and tenant that the option is terminated and specifying the date of termination which shall not be earlier than the date of that agreement, or
(II) the delivery to the tenant of a document giving notification that the option has been terminated and specifying the date of termination which shall not be earlier than the date that notification is received by the tenant,
(iii) where the landlord and tenant become connected persons,
(iv) where the landlord or a person connected with the landlord occupies the immovable goods that are subject to that letting whether that person occupies those goods by way of letting or otherwise, or
(v) where the immovable goods that are subject to that letting are used or to be used for residential purposes within the meaning of subsection (4).
(2)(a) Subject to paragraphs (b) and (c), a landlord may not opt to tax a letting—
(i) where the landlord and the tenant in respect of that letting are connected persons, or
(ii) where the landlord, whether or not connected to the tenant, or a person connected to the landlord, occupies the immovable goods that are subject to that letting whether that landlord or that person occupies those goods by way of letting or otherwise.
(b)(i) Subject to subparagraph (ii), paragraph (a)(i) and subsection (1)(d)(iii) shall not apply where the immovable goods which are the subject of the letting are used for the purposes of supplies or activities which entitle the tenant to deduct at least 90 per cent of the tax chargeable on the letting in accordance with Chapter 1 of Part 8 .
(ii) Where a landlord has exercised a landlord’s option to tax in respect of a letting to which paragraph (a)(i) would have applied but for subparagraph (i), paragraph (a)(i) shall apply from the end of the first accounting year in which the goods are used for the purposes of supplies or activities which entitle the tenant to deduct less than 90 per cent of the said tax chargeable.
(c)(i) Subject to subparagraph (ii), paragraph (a)(ii) and subsection (1)(d)(iv) shall not apply where the occupant (being any person including the landlord referred to in that paragraph or that subsection) uses the immovable goods which are the subject of the letting for the purpose of making supplies which entitle that occupant to deduct, in accordance with Chapter 1 of Part 8 , at least 90 per cent of all tax chargeable in respect of goods or services used by that occupant for the purpose of making those supplies.
(ii) Where a landlord has exercised a landlord’s option to tax in respect of a letting to which paragraph (a)(ii) would have applied but for subparagraph (i), paragraph (a)(ii) shall apply from the end of the first accounting year in which the immovable goods are used for the purpose of making supplies which entitle that occupant to deduct less than 90 per cent of the said tax chargeable.
(3)(a) In this subsection—
“control”, in the case of a body corporate or in the case of a partnership, has the meaning assigned to it by section 4 (2);
“relative” means a brother, sister, ancestor or lineal descendant.
(b) For the purposes of this section, any question of whether a person is connected with another person shall be determined in accordance with the following:
(i) a person is connected with an individual if that person is the individual’s spouse, or is a relative, or the spouse of a relative, of the individual or of the individual’s spouse;
(ii) a person is connected with any person with whom he or she is in partnership, and with the spouse or a relative of any individual with whom he or she is in partnership;
(iii) subject to clauses (IV) and (V) of subparagraph (v), a person is connected with another person if he or she has control over that other person, or if the other person has control over the first-mentioned person, or if both persons are controlled by another person or persons;
(iv) a body of persons is connected with another person if that person, or persons connected with him or her, have control of that body of persons, or the person and persons connected with him or her together have control of it;
(v) a body of persons is connected with another body of persons—
(I) if the same person has control of both or a person has control of one and persons connected with that person or that person and persons connected with that person have control of the other,
(II) if a group of 2 or more persons has control of each body of persons and the groups either consist of the same persons or could be regarded as consisting of the same persons by treating (in one or more cases) a member of either group as replaced by a person with whom he or she is connected,
(III) if both bodies of persons act in pursuit of a common purpose,
(IV) if any person or any group of persons or groups of persons having a reasonable commonality of identity have or had the means or power, either directly or indirectly, to determine the activities carried on or to be carried on by both bodies of persons, or
(V) if both bodies of persons are under the control of any person or group of persons or groups of persons having a reasonable commonality of identity;
(vi) a person in the capacity as trustee of a settlement is connected with—
(I) any person who in relation to the settlement is a settlor, or
(II) any person who is a beneficiary under the settlement.
(4) A landlord’s option to tax may not be exercised in respect of all or part of a house or apartment or other similar establishment to the extent that those immovable goods are used or to be used for residential purposes, including any such letting—
(a) governed by the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 ,
(b) governed by the Housing (Rent Books) Regulations 1993 ( S.I. No. 146 of 1993 ),
(c) governed by section 10 of the Housing Act 1988 ,
(d) of a dwelling to which Part II of the Housing (Private Rented Dwellings) Act 1982 applies, or
(e) of accommodation which is provided as a temporary dwelling for emergency residential purposes.
(5) A landlord’s option to tax, once exercised, shall immediately cease to have effect to the extent that the immovable goods which are the subject of the letting to which the option applies come to be used for residential purposes which fall within subsection (4).
num: 98
paragraphs: —(1) In this section—
“interest”, in relation to immovable goods, shall be construed in accordance with section 93 (1);
“open market value” has the meaning assigned to it by section 36 .
(2)(a) Where the Revenue Commissioners wish to ascertain the open market value of an interest in immovable goods, they may authorise a person to inspect the immovable goods and to report to them the open market value of that interest for the purposes of this Act, and a person having custody or possession of those goods shall permit the person so authorised to inspect the goods at such reasonable times as the Commissioners consider necessary.
(b) Where the Revenue Commissioners require a valuation to be made by a person named by them, the costs of that valuation shall be defrayed by the Commissioners.
num: 99
paragraphs: —(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), where in relation to a return lodged under Chapter 3 of Part 9 or a claim made in accordance with regulations, it is shown to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners that, as respects any taxable period, the amount of tax (if any) actually paid to the Collector-General in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 9 together with the amount of tax (if any) which qualified for deduction under Chapter 1 of Part 8 exceeds the tax (if any) which would properly be payable if no deduction were made under Chapter 1 of Part 8 , the Commissioners shall refund the amount of the excess less any sums previously refunded under this subsection or repaid under Chapter 1 of Part 8 and may include in the amount refunded any interest which has been paid under section 114 .
(2) Where the Revenue Commissioners apply section 15 to a number of persons, the Commissioners may defer repayment of all or part of any tax refundable under subsection (1) to any one or more of those persons prior to the application of that section if any one or more of those persons have not furnished all returns and remitted all amounts of tax referred to in section 76 or 77 , as may be appropriate, at the time of such application.
(3)(a) Subject to paragraph (b), the Revenue Commissioners may, where it appears requisite to them to do so for the protection of the revenue, require as a condition for making a refund in accordance with subsection (1) the giving of security of such amount and in such manner and form as they may determine.
(b) The amount of security referred to in paragraph (a) shall not, in any particular case, exceed the amount to be refunded.
(4) A claim for a refund under this Act may be made only within 4 years after the end of the taxable period to which it relates.
(5) Where the Revenue Commissioners refund any amount due under subsection (1) or section 100 , they may, if they so determine, refund any such amount directly into an account, specified by the person to whom the amount is due, in a financial institution.
(6) The Revenue Commissioners shall not refund any amount of tax except as provided for in this Act or any order or regulations made under this Act.
num: 100
paragraphs: —(1) Where, due to a mistaken assumption in the operation of the tax, whether that mistaken assumption was made by an accountable person, any other person or the Revenue Commissioners, a person—
(a) accounted, in a return furnished to the Revenue Commissioners, for an amount of tax for which that person was not properly accountable,
(b) did not, because that person’s supplies of goods and services were treated as exempted activities, furnish a return to the Revenue Commissioners and, therefore, did not receive a refund of an amount of tax in accordance with section 99 (1), or
(c) did not deduct an amount of tax in respect of qualifying activities, within the meaning of section 59 (1), which that person was entitled to deduct,
then, in respect of the total amount of tax referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) (in this section referred to as the “overpaid amount”), that person may claim a refund of the overpaid amount and the Revenue Commissioners shall, subject to this section, refund to the claimant the overpaid amount unless they determine that the refund of that overpaid amount or part thereof would result in the unjust enrichment of the claimant.
(2) A person who claims a refund of an overpaid amount under this section shall—
(a) make that claim in writing setting out full details of the circumstances of the case and identifying the overpaid amount in respect of each taxable period to which the claim relates, and
(b) furnish such relevant documentation to support the claim as the Revenue Commissioners may request.
(3)(a) For the purposes of determining whether a refund of an overpaid amount or part thereof would result in the unjust enrichment of a claimant, the Revenue Commissioners shall have regard to—
(i) the extent to which the cost of the overpaid amount was, for practical purposes, passed on by that claimant to other persons in the price charged by the claimant for goods or services supplied by the claimant,
(ii) any net loss of profits which they have reason to believe, based on their own analysis and on any information that may be provided to them by that claimant, was borne by the claimant due to the mistaken assumption made in the operation of the tax, and
(iii) any other factors that that claimant brings to their attention in this context.
(b) The Revenue Commissioners may request from the claimant all reasonable information relating to the circumstances giving rise to the claim as may assist them in reaching a determination for the purposes of paragraph (a).
(4) Where, in accordance with subsection (3), the Revenue Commissioners determine that a refund of an overpaid amount or part thereof would result in the unjust enrichment of a claimant, they shall refund only so much of the overpaid amount as would not result in the unjust enrichment of that claimant.
(5) Where, in relation to any claim under subsection (1), the Revenue Commissioners have withheld an amount of the overpaid amount claimed under subsection (1) as it would result in the unjust enrichment of the claimant, the Commissioners shall, notwithstanding subsection (1), refund to the claimant that part of the withheld amount together with any interest payable in accordance with section 105 which the claimant has undertaken to repay to the persons to whom the cost of the overpaid amount was passed on if they are satisfied that the claimant has adequate arrangements in place to identify and repay those persons.
(6) Where a claimant receives a refund in accordance with subsection (5) and fails to repay the persons concerned at the latest by the 30th day next following the payment by the Revenue Commissioners of that refund, then any amount not so repaid shall, for the purposes of this Act, be treated as if it were tax due by the claimant for the taxable period within which that day falls.
num: 101
paragraphs: —(1) For the purposes of this section—
“applicant” means a taxable person who—
(a) not being established in the Member State of refund, but being established in another Member State, and
(b) having entered into transactions that give rise to a right of deduction in that other Member State,
makes a refund application;
“deductible transactions” means transactions that give rise to a right of deduction in the Member State concerned;
“Member State of refund”, in relation to an applicant, means the Member State in which value-added tax (as referred to in the VAT Directive) was charged to the applicant in respect of—
(a) goods or services supplied to the applicant by other taxable persons in that Member State, or
(b) the importation of goods into that Member State;
“non-deductible transactions” means transactions that do not give rise to a right of deduction in the Member State concerned;
“refund application” means an electronic application submitted for a refund of tax charged in the Member State of refund to an applicant in respect of goods or services supplied to the applicant by taxable persons in that Member State or in respect of the importation of goods into that Member State.
(2) The Revenue Commissioners shall, in accordance with this section and regulations (if any), make a refund to an applicant of tax charged to the applicant by accountable persons in the State or tax charged to that applicant on the importation of goods into the State, in cases where a full and correct refund application has been received by them from the Member State in which the applicant is established.
(3)(a) Subject to paragraph (b), where the State is the Member State of refund, the amount of tax that is refundable in accordance with subsection (2) is the amount of tax charged to an applicant by an accountable person in respect of supplies of goods or services in the State, or on the importation of goods by the applicant into the State, if those goods or services are used by the applicant for the purpose of the applicant’s business, but only to the extent that the applicant would be able to deduct that amount under Chapter 1 of Part 8 if the applicant were an accountable person in the State.
(b) Where an applicant undertakes in the applicant’s Member State of establishment both deductible transactions and non-deductible transactions, the amount to be refunded by the Member State of refund is the proportion of tax attributable to the deductible transactions as determined in accordance with the law of the applicant’s Member State of establishment.
(4) An applicant who wishes to claim a refund of tax may apply for the refund only through the electronic portal set up for the purpose by the applicant’s Member State of establishment.
(5)(a) Where an applicant who carries out transactions of the kind referred to in subsection (3)(b) makes a refund application and the proportion of tax referred to in that subsection is subsequently adjusted, the applicant shall make a correction to the original amount that was applied for or has already been refunded.
(b) The applicant shall make the correction in a refund application during the calendar year following the period for which the relevant refund application was made or, if the applicant makes no refund applications during that calendar year, by lodging a separate declaration via the electronic portal established by the Member State of establishment of the applicant.
(6)(a)(i) Where the State is the Member State of refund, the applicant shall ensure that the refund application covers tax charged in respect of supplies of goods or services invoiced to the applicant and importations by the applicant during a refund period, being a period of not more than one calendar year and, subject to subparagraph (ii), not less than 3 calendar months.
(ii) A refund period may be less than 3 calendar months if the application in respect of the period relates to the last quarter of a calendar year.
(b) A refund application may be lodged only on or before 30 September in the calendar year following the refund period.
(c) A refund application may cover tax charged in respect of transactions omitted from the applicant’s previous refund applications, but only if those transactions were completed during the relevant calendar year.
(7)(a) An applicant is not entitled to make a refund application under this section for an amount less than €400 if the claim is for a period of less than one calendar year but at least 3 months.
(b) An applicant is not entitled to make a refund application under this section for an amount less than €50 if the claim is for a period that represents a full calendar year or the last quarter of a calendar year.
(8) As soon as is practicable after deciding not to forward to another Member State a refund application made by an applicant established in the State on the grounds that the applicant is not entitled to a refund, the Revenue Commissioners shall notify the decision to the applicant by electronic means.
(9)(a) This subsection applies to a refund application in respect of which the State is the Member State of refund.
(b) As soon as is practicable after receiving from an applicant a refund application to which this subsection applies, the Revenue Commissioners shall notify the applicant by electronic means of the date on which they received the application.
(c) Within 4 months after the date on which they received a refund application from an applicant, the Revenue Commissioners shall, except as otherwise provided by this subsection—
(i) decide whether or not to approve the application (whether wholly or partly), and
(ii) notify their decision to the applicant by electronic means.
(d)(i) At any time within 4 months after the date on which they received a refund application from an applicant established in another Member State, the Revenue Commissioners may request additional information in support of the details provided in the application.
(ii) A request referred to in subparagraph (i) may be made to the applicant, the competent authority of the Member State where the applicant is established or any other person whom the Revenue Commissioners reasonably believe to be capable of providing relevant information.
(e) Where the Revenue Commissioners request additional information in accordance with paragraph (d), they shall, except when paragraph (g) applies—
(i) decide whether or not to approve the application (whether wholly or partly), and
(ii) notify their decision to the applicant by electronic means,
within 2 months after the relevant date.
(f) For the purpose of this subsection, the relevant date is—
(i) where the Revenue Commissioners receive the requested information within one month after the date on which the request was notified to the recipient, the date on which the Commissioners received the additional information,
(ii) where the Revenue Commissioners do not receive the requested information within one month after the date on which the request was made to the recipient, the date on which that period ends,
(iii) where the Revenue Commissioners receive the requested information within one month referred to in subparagraph (i), or that period expires without the Commissioners having received that information, the date that is 6 months after the date on which the refund application was made.
(g) Where the Revenue Commissioners consider it necessary to do so, they may, at any time before they make a decision with respect to a refund application, request any of the persons referred to in paragraph (d) to provide further additional information concerning the application or the applicant.
(h) Where the Revenue Commissioners request further additional information with respect to a refund application or the applicant as provided by paragraph (g), they shall—
(i) decide whether or not to approve the application (whether wholly or partly), and
(ii) notify their decision to the applicant by electronic means,
within 8 months after the date on which they received the refund application.
(i) Where the Revenue Commissioners have reasonable doubts about the validity or accuracy of a refund application, they may request the original or a copy of the relevant invoice or importation document to be produced for inspection.
(j) Without limiting the grounds on which the Revenue Commissioners may refuse a refund application, they may refuse to approve such an application on the ground that a request made by them under this subsection has been refused or has not been complied with within a reasonable time.
(k) Where the Revenue Commissioners notify an applicant of their decision to approve a refund application either wholly or partly, they shall refund the amount due not later than 10 working days after the notification of the decision to the applicant.
(l) Where the Revenue Commissioners decide to refuse to approve a refund application either wholly or partly, they shall include in their decision the grounds for the refusal.
(10) Where the State is the Member State of refund, and the applicant requests payment of the refund to be made in another Member State, the Revenue Commissioners shall deduct from the refund amount any bank charges in respect of the payment.
(11)(a) An applicant who has obtained a refund from the Revenue Commissioners based on an incorrect refund application containing an erroneous claim or declaration (whether or not the error was made intentionally, recklessly or carelessly) shall—
(i) repay to the Commissioners the amount incorrectly obtained as a refund, and
(ii) pay an amount of interest to the Commissioners.
(b) Any such interest is to be calculated at the rate provided for in section 114 (2) from the date on which the refund was made to the day on which the applicant repays to the Revenue Commissioners the amount incorrectly obtained as a refund.
(c) The liability imposed on an applicant by this subsection is in addition to the liability imposed by section 116 .
(12) While an applicant to whom subsection (11) applies continues to fail to pay the Revenue Commissioners an amount payable under that subsection, the Commissioners shall withhold any further refund to that applicant up to the amount that is due from the applicant under that subsection.
(13)(a) Subject to paragraph (b), where the Revenue Commissioners refund an amount due to an applicant but not within the time limits prescribed by subsection (9), they shall pay an amount of interest to the applicant calculated at the rate provided for in section 105 (4) from the day following the last day of the period within which payment of the amount due is required to be made to the day on which the amount due is paid to the applicant.
(b) Paragraph (a) does not apply if the applicant—
(i) provides additional information in accordance with a request made by the Revenue Commissioners but not within one month after the date on which the request was notified to the applicant, or
(ii) fails to provide all of the additional information requested within that period.
(14) This section does not apply to—
(a) an applicant who supplies goods or services in respect of which the place of supply is the Member State of refund other than those for which the person who receives them is liable, or
(b) a transport service, or a service ancillary to such a service, that is exempted in the Member State of supply in accordance with Article 144, 146, 148, 149, 151, 153, 159 or 160 of the VAT Directive.
num: 102
paragraphs: —(1) In this section “deductible tax”, in relation to a person to whom this section applies—
(a) subject to paragraph (b), means tax chargeable (including any flat-rate addition) in respect of goods or services used by the person for the purposes of any business carried on by him or her to the extent that such tax would be deductible by that person under Chapter 1 of Part 8 if the business were carried on by that person within the State,
(b) does not include tax chargeable in respect of goods for supply within the State.
(2) In accordance with regulations, the Revenue Commissioners shall repay, to a person to whom this section applies, deductible tax chargeable in respect of supplies of goods or services to that person or in respect of goods imported by him or her.
(3) This section applies to a person who satisfies the Revenue Commissioners that the person—
(a) carries on a business outside the Community, and
(b) supplies no goods or services in the State (other than services for which, in accordance with section 10 , 12 , 13 , 16 (3)(b) or 17 (1), the person to whom they are supplied is solely liable for the tax that is chargeable).
num: 103
paragraphs: —(1) The Minister may by order provide that a person who fulfils to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners such conditions as may be specified in the order shall be entitled to be repaid so much, as is specified in the order, of any tax borne or paid by the person as does not qualify for deduction under Chapter 1 of Part 8 .
(2) The Minister may by order amend or revoke an order under this section, including an order under this subsection.
(3) An order under this section may, if so expressed, have retrospective effect.
(4) An order under this section shall be laid before DÃ¡il Ãireann as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the order is passed by DÃ¡il Ãireann within the next 21 days on which DÃ¡il Ãireann has sat after the order is laid before it, the order shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under it.
num: 104
paragraphs: —(1)(a) In accordance with regulations, the Revenue Commissioners shall repay, to a person to whom this subsection applies, the residual tax included in the consideration for supply of a new means of transport where such new means of transport is subsequently dispatched or transported to another Member State.
(b) This subsection applies to a person who is not entitled to a deduction under Chapter 1 of Part 8 of the tax borne or paid by the person on the purchase, intra-Community acquisition or importation of the new means of transport in question.
(2)(a) Subject to paragraph (b), where the supply of a telephone card is taxable within the State and that telephone card is subsequently used outside the Community for the purpose of accessing a telecommunications service, then—
(i) the place of supply of that telecommunications service shall be deemed to be outside the Community, and
(ii) the supplier of that telephone card shall be entitled, in the taxable period within which that supplier acquires proof that that telephone card was so used outside the Community, to a reduction of the tax payable by that supplier in respect of the supply of that telephone card, by an amount calculated in accordance with paragraph (c).
(b) Where the supply of a telephone card is taxable in the State and—
(i) the person liable for the tax on that supply is a person referred to in section 12 (1) or (2) who—
(I) is not entitled to a deduction, in accordance with Chapter 1 of Part 8 , of all of the tax chargeable in respect of that supply, or
(II) is entitled to a deduction, in accordance with Chapter 1 of Part 8 , of the tax chargeable in respect of that supply because that card was acquired for the purposes of resale,
and
(ii) that telephone card is subsequently used outside the Community for the purpose of accessing a telecommunications service,
then—
(A) the place of supply of that telecommunications service shall be deemed to be outside the Community, and
(B) the person who is taxable in respect of that supply of that telephone card shall be entitled, in the taxable period within which that person acquires proof that that telephone card was so used outside the Community, to a reduction of the tax payable in respect of that supply of that telephone card to the extent that that telephone card was so used.
(c) For the purposes of this subsection, the amount of the reduction referred to in paragraph (a) shall be calculated by the formula—
(A — B) × C
C + 100
where—
A is the tax inclusive price charged by the supplier for that part of the right contained in the telephone card, which was consumed in accessing the telecommunications service that was deemed to be supplied outside the Community,
B is the tax inclusive price charged to the supplier for that part of the right contained in the telephone card, which was consumed in accessing the telecommunications service that was deemed to be supplied outside the Community, and
C is the percentage rate of tax chargeable on the supply of the telephone card at the time of that supply by that supplier.
(d) Where a telephone card is used to access a telecommunications service, the value of the telephone card so used shall, for the purposes of section 37 (3), be disregarded.
(3) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, a refund of the tax paid in respect of radio broadcasting reception apparatus and parts thereof belonging to an institution or society may be made to the institution or society but only if—
(a) in the opinion of the Revenue Commissioners, it has for its primary object the amelioration of the lot of blind persons, and
(b) it shows, to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners, that the goods in question are intended for the use of blind persons.
(4) Regulations may make provision for remitting or repaying, subject to such conditions (if any) as may be specified in the regulations or as the Revenue Commissioners may impose, the tax chargeable in respect of the supply of goods, or of such goods as may be specified in the regulations, in cases where the Commissioners are satisfied that—
(a) the goods have been shipped on board an aircraft or ship proceeding to a place outside the State,
(b) the goods are, or are to be used in, a fishing vessel used or to be used for the purposes of commercial sea fishing.
(5) Regulations may make provision for remitting or repaying, subject to such conditions (if any) as may be specified in the regulations or as the Revenue Commissioners may impose, the tax chargeable in respect of the supply of both or any one (as may be specified in the regulations) of the following services:
num: 105
paragraphs: —(1) For the purposes of this section—
“claimant” means a person who submits a valid claim for a refundable amount;
“overpaid amount” means an amount which is a refundable amount as a result of a claimant having made a payment of tax;
“refundable amount” means an amount which a person is entitled to receive from the Revenue Commissioners in accordance with this Act or any order or regulations made under this Act and which is claimed within the period provided for in section 99 (4), but such amount does not include interest payable under this section;
“valid claim” means a return or a claim, furnished in accordance with this Act or any order or regulations made under this Act, and which includes all information required by the Revenue Commissioners to establish the refundable amount.
(2) Where a mistaken assumption in the operation of the tax is made by the Revenue Commissioners and, as a result, a refundable amount is payable to a claimant, interest at the rate set out in subsection (4) or prescribed by order under subsection (7) shall, subject to section 1006A(2A) of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 , be payable by the Revenue Commissioners on that amount from—
(a) in the case of an overpaid amount, the day that overpaid amount was received by the Revenue Commissioners,
(b)(i) subject to subparagraph (ii), in the case of any other refundable amount, the 19th day of the month following the taxable period in respect of which a claimant would have been entitled to receive a refundable amount but for the mistaken assumption in the operation of the tax by the Revenue Commissioners,
(ii) where a return was due in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 9 from the claimant referred to in subparagraph (i) in respect of the taxable period referred to in that subparagraph, the day such return was received,
to the day on which the refundable amount is paid by the Revenue Commissioners to the claimant.
(3) Where, for any reason other than a mistaken assumption in the operation of the tax made by the Revenue Commissioners, a refundable amount is payable to a claimant but is not paid until after the expiry of 93 days from the day the Revenue Commissioners receive a valid claim for that amount, interest at the rate specified in subsection (4) or prescribed by order under subsection (7) shall, subject to section 1006A(2A) of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 , be payable by the Revenue Commissioners on that amount from the day on which that 93 days expires to the day on which the refundable amount is paid by the Revenue Commissioners to the claimant.
(4) Interest payable in accordance with this section shall be simple interest payable at the rate of 0.011 per cent per day or part of a day, or such other rate as may be prescribed by the Minister by order under subsection (7).
(5) Interest shall not be payable if it amounts to less than €10.
(6)(a) The Revenue Commissioners shall not pay interest in respect of any amount under this Act except as provided for by this section.
(b) This section shall not apply in relation to any refund of tax in respect of which interest is payable under or by virtue of any provision of any other enactment.
(7)(a) The Minister may, from time to time, make an order prescribing a rate for the purposes of subsection (4).
(b) Every order made by the Minister under paragraph (a) shall be laid before DÃ¡il Ãireann as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the order is passed by DÃ¡il Ãireann within the next 21 days on which DÃ¡il Ãireann has sat after the order is laid before it, the order shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under it.
(8) The Revenue Commissioners may make regulations as necessary governing the operation of this section.
num: 106
paragraphs: — Tax is hereby placed under the care and management of the Revenue Commissioners.
num: 107
paragraphs: —(1) In this section “provisions relating to tax” means—
(a) the provisions of this Act and regulations, and
(b) the provisions relating to tax of any subsequent Act.
(2) The secretary or other officer acting as secretary for the time being of any body of persons shall be answerable in addition to the body for doing all such acts as are required to be done by the body under any of the provisions relating to tax.
(3) Every officer referred to in subsection (2) may from time to time retain out of any money coming into that officer’s hands, on behalf of the body, so much thereof as is sufficient to pay the tax due by the body and shall be indemnified for all such payments made in pursuance of this section.
(4) Any notice required to be given to a body of persons under any of the provisions relating to tax may be given to the secretary or other officer acting as secretary for the time being of that body.
num: 108
paragraphs: —(1) In this section—
“authorised officer” means an officer of the Revenue Commissioners authorised by them in writing for the purposes of this section;
“records” means any document, or any other written or printed material in any form, including any information stored, maintained or preserved by means of any mechanical or electronic device, whether or not stored, maintained or preserved in a legible form, which a person is required to keep, retain, issue or produce for inspection or which may be inspected under any provision relating to tax.
(2) For the purposes of this Act and regulations, an authorised officer may at all reasonable times enter any premises or place where he or she has reason to believe that business is carried on or anything is done in connection with business and—
(a) may require the person carrying on the business, or any person on those premises or in that place who is employed by the person carrying on the business or who is associated with that person in the carrying on of the business, to produce any books, records, accounts or other documents relating to the business or to any other business which the authorised officer has reason to believe may be, or have been, connected with such business or have, or have had, trading relations with such business,
(b) may, if the authorised officer has reason to believe that any of the books, records, accounts or other documents which he or she has required to be produced to him or her under this subsection have not been so produced, search in those premises or that place for those books, records, accounts or other documents,
(c) may, if the authorised officer has reason to believe that a person is carrying or has in that person’s possession any records which may be required as evidence in criminal proceedings in accordance with section 1078 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 in relation to the tax, request the person to produce any such records, and if that person should fail to do so, the authorised officer or a member of the Garda SÃ­ochÃ¡na may search that person, provided that—
(i) the officer or the member of the Garda SÃ­ochÃ¡na conducting the search ensures, as far as practicable, that the person understands the reason for the search,
(ii) the search is conducted with due regard to the privacy of that person,
(iii) the person being searched is not searched by an officer or member of the Garda SÃ­ochÃ¡na of the opposite sex, and
(iv) the person being searched is not requested to remove any clothing other than headgear or a coat, jacket, glove or a similar article of clothing,
(d) may, in the case of any such books, records, accounts or other documents produced to or found by the authorised officer, take copies of or extracts from them and remove and retain them for such period as may be reasonable for their further examination or for the purposes of any proceedings in relation to tax,
(e) may, if the authorised officer has reason to believe that goods connected with taxable supplies, intra-Community acquisitions or importations are held on those premises or in that place and that particulars of such goods have not been kept and retained, as required by this Act or by regulations, in the books, records, accounts or other documents of the business or of any other business similarly required to keep and retain particulars of those goods, search those premises or that place for those goods and, on their discovery, examine and take particulars of them,
(f) may require the person carrying on the business, or any person on those premises or in that place who is employed by the person carrying on the business or who is associated with that person in the carrying on of the business, to give the authorised officer all reasonable assistance, including providing information and explanations and furnishing documents in connection with the business, as required by the authorised officer.
(3) Nothing in subsection (2) shall be construed as requiring any person carrying on a profession, or any person employed by any person carrying on a profession, to produce to an authorised officer any documents relating to a client, other than such documents as are material to the tax affairs of the person carrying on the profession and, in particular, any such person shall not be required to disclose any information or professional advice of a confidential nature given to a client.
(4) An accountable person shall, on request from an authorised officer, furnish to that officer, in respect of a specified period, the following information:
(a) the name and address of each of his or her customers;
(b) the total consideration payable in respect of supplies of goods and services made by him or her to each such customer and the tax thereon;
(c) the value and description of any gifts or promotional items given by him or her to any person in connection with such supplies or any other payments made by him or her to any person in connection with such supplies;
(d) the name, address and registration number of each of his or her suppliers;
(e) the total consideration payable in respect of goods and services supplied to him or her from each supplier and the tax thereon.
(5) A person shall not wilfully obstruct or delay an authorised officer in the exercise of his or her powers under this section.
(6) Where, in pursuance of this section, an authorised officer enters any premises, carries out any search or requests production of any documents, he or she shall, on request, show his or her authorisation for the purpose of this section to the person concerned.
num: 109
paragraphs: —(1) The Revenue Commissioners may, where it appears requisite to them to do so for the protection of the revenue, require an accountable person, as a condition of the person supplying goods or services under a taxable supply, to give security, or further security, of such amount and in such manner and form as they may determine, for the payment of any tax which is, or may become, due from him or her from the date of service on him or her of a notice in writing to that effect.
(2) Where a notice is served on a person in accordance with subsection (1), the person may, on giving notice to the Revenue Commissioners within the period of 21 days from the date of the service of the notice, appeal the requirement of giving any security under subsection (1) to the Appeal Commissioners.
num: 110
paragraphs: —(1)(a) Subject to paragraph (b), where within the time prescribed by section 76 or 77 , as may be appropriate, an accountable person fails to furnish in accordance with the relevant regulations a return of the tax payable by that person in respect of any period, then, without prejudice to any other action which may be taken, the Revenue Commissioners may, in accordance with regulations, but subject to section 113 , estimate the amount of tax payable by him or her in respect of that period and serve notice on him or her of the amount estimated.
(b) Where the Revenue Commissioners are satisfied that—
(i) an amount estimated under paragraph (a) is excessive, they may amend the amount so estimated by reducing it, or
(ii) an amount estimated under paragraph (a) is insufficient, they may amend the amount so estimated by increasing it,
and, in either case, they shall serve notice on the person concerned of the revised amount estimated and such notice shall supersede any previous notice issued under this subsection.
(2) Where a notice is served under subsection (1) on a person, the following provisions shall apply:
(a) the person may, if that person claims that he or she is not an accountable person, by giving notice in writing to the Revenue Commissioners within the period of 14 days from the date of the service of the notice, require the claim to be referred for decision to the Appeal Commissioners and their decision shall, subject to section 119 , be final and conclusive;
(b) on the expiration of such period, if no such claim is required to be so referred, or if such a claim is required to be so referred, on final determination against the claim, the estimated tax specified in the notice shall be recoverable in the same manner and by the like proceedings as if the person had furnished, within the prescribed period, a true and correct return, in accordance with regulations, for the period to which the estimate relates, showing as due by that person such estimated tax;
(c) if at any time after the service of the notice the person furnishes a return, in accordance with regulations, in respect of the period specified in the notice and pays tax in accordance with the return, together with any interest and costs which may have been incurred in connection with the default, the notice shall stand discharged and any excess of tax which may have been paid shall be repaid.
(3) A notice given by the Revenue Commissioners under subsection (1) may extend to 2 or more taxable periods.
num: 111
paragraphs: —(1) Where, in relation to any period, the inspector of taxes, or such other officer as the Revenue Commissioners may authorise to exercise the powers conferred by this section (in this section referred to as “other officer”), has reason to believe that an amount of tax is due and payable to the Revenue Commissioners by a person in any of the following circumstances:
(a) the total amount of tax payable by the person was greater than the total amount of tax (if any) paid by that person;
(b) the total amount of tax refunded to the person in accordance with section 99 (1) was greater than the amount (if any) properly refundable to that person;
(c) an amount of tax is payable by the person and a refund under section 99 (1) has been made to the person,
then, without prejudice to any other action which may be taken, the inspector or other officer—
(i) may, in accordance with regulations but subject to section 113 , make an assessment in one sum of the total amount of tax which in his or her opinion should have been paid or the total amount of tax (including a nil amount) which in accordance with section 99 (1) should have been refunded, as the case may be, in respect of such period, and
(ii) may serve a notice on the person specifying—
(I) the total amount of tax so assessed,
(II) the total amount of tax (if any) paid by the person or refunded to the person in relation to such period, and
(III) the total amount so due and payable (referred to subsequently in this section as “the amount due”).
(2) Where notice is served on a person under subsection (1), the following provisions shall apply:
(a) the person may, if he or she claims that the amount due is excessive, on giving notice to the inspector or other officer within the period of 21 days from the date of the service of the notice, appeal to the Appeal Commissioners, and
(b) on the expiration of the said period, if no notice of appeal is received or, if notice of appeal is received, on determination of the appeal by agreement or otherwise, the amount due or the amended amount due as determined in relation to the appeal, shall become due and payable as if the tax were tax which the person was liable to pay for the taxable period during which the period of 14 days from the date of the service of the notice under subsection (1) expired or the appeal was determined by agreement or otherwise, whichever taxable period is the later.
(3) Where a person appeals an assessment under subsection (1), within the time limits provided for in subsection (2), then—
(a) he or she shall pay to the Revenue Commissioners the amount which he or she believes to be due, and
(b) if—
(i) the amount paid is greater than 80 per cent of the amount of the tax found to be due on the determination of the appeal, and
(ii) the balance of the amount found to be due on the determination of the appeal is paid within one month of the date of such determination,
interest in accordance with section 114 shall not be chargeable from the date of raising of the assessment.
num: 112
paragraphs: — For the purposes of this Act and regulations, where an officer of the Revenue Commissioners nominated in accordance with regulations for the purposes of section 110 or an inspector of taxes or an officer of the Revenue Commissioners authorised for the purposes of section 111 , or any other officer of the Revenue Commissioners acting with the knowledge of such nominated officer or such inspector or such authorised officer causes to issue, manually or by any electronic, photographic or other process, a notice of estimation or assessment of tax bearing the name of such nominated officer or such inspector or such authorised officer, that estimate or assessment to which the notice of estimation or assessment of tax relates shall be deemed—
(a) in the case of an estimate made under section 110 , to have been made by such nominated officer, and
(b) in the case of an assessment made under section 111 , to have been made by such inspector or such authorised officer, as the case may be, to the best of such inspector’s or such authorised officer’s opinion.
num: 113
paragraphs: —(1) An estimation or assessment of tax under section 110 or 111 may be made at any time not later than 4 years—
(a) after the end of the taxable period to which the estimate or assessment relates, or
(b) if the period for which the estimate or assessment is made consists of 2 or more taxable periods, after the end of the earlier or earliest taxable period within that period.
(2)(a) Subject to paragraphs (b) and (c), in this subsection “neglect” means negligence or a failure to give any notice, to furnish particulars, to make any return or to produce or furnish any invoice, credit note, debit note, receipt, account, voucher, bank statement, estimate or assessment, statement, information, book, document, record or declaration required to be given, furnished, made or produced by or under this Act or regulations.
(b) A person shall be deemed not to have failed to do anything required to be done within a limited time if the person did it within such further time (if any) as the Revenue Commissioners may have allowed.
(c) Where a person had a reasonable excuse for not doing anything required to be done, he or she shall be deemed not to have failed to do it if he or she did it without unreasonable delay after the excuse had ceased.
(d) Notwithstanding subsection (1), in a case in which any form of fraud or neglect has been committed by or on behalf of any person in connection with or in relation to tax, an estimate or assessment as referred to in that subsection may be made at any time for any period for which, by reason of the fraud or neglect, tax would otherwise be lost to the Exchequer.
(3)(a) Where a person dies, an estimation or assessment of tax under section 110 or 111 , as the case may be, may be made on the person’s personal representative for any period for which such an estimation or assessment could have been made on him or her immediately before his or her death, or could be made on him or her if he or she were living, in respect of tax which became due by the person before his or her death, and the amount of tax recoverable under any such estimation or assessment shall be a debt due from and payable out of the estate of the person.
(b)(i) No estimation or assessment of tax shall be made by virtue of this subsection later than 3 years after the expiration of the year in which the deceased person died, in a case in which the grant of probate or letters of administration was made in that year.
(ii) No such estimation or assessment shall be made later than 2 years after the expiration of the year in which such grant was made in any other case.
(c) Notwithstanding paragraphs (a) and (b), where the personal representative—
(i) after the year in which the deceased person died, lodges a corrective affidavit for the purposes of the assessment of estate duty, or delivers an additional affidavit under section 48 of the Capital Acquisitions Tax Consolidation Act 2003 , or
(ii) is liable to deliver an additional affidavit under section 48 of the Capital Acquisitions Tax Consolidation Act 2003 , has been so notified by the Revenue Commissioners and did not deliver such additional affidavit in the year in which the deceased person died,
the estimation or assessment under section 110 or 111 may be made at any time before the expiration of 2 years after the end of the year in which the corrective affidavit was lodged or the additional affidavit was or is delivered.
(4) Subject to section 116 (10), proceedings for the recovery of any penalty under this Act may be commenced at any time within 6 years next after the date on which it was incurred.
num: 114
paragraphs: —(1) Where any amount of tax becomes payable under section 76 or 77 and is not paid, simple interest on the amount shall be paid by the accountable person, and such interest shall be calculated from the date on which the amount became payable and at a rate of 0.0274 per cent for each day or part of a day during which the amount remains unpaid.
(2) Where an amount of tax is refunded to a person and—
(a) no amount of tax was properly refundable to that person under section 99 (1), or
(b) the amount of tax refunded is greater than the amount properly refundable to that person under section 99 (1),
then simple interest shall be paid by that person on any amount of tax refunded to that person which was not properly refundable to that person under section 99 (1), from the date the refund was made, at the rate of 0.0274 per cent for each day or part of a day during which the person does not correctly account for any such amount refunded which was not properly refundable.
(3)(a) Subject to paragraph (b), where the amount of the balance of tax remaining to be paid in accordance with section 77 (2)(b) and (c) by an authorised person referred to in section 77 (5) (in this subsection referred to as the “balance”) represents more than 20 per cent of the tax which the authorised person became accountable for in respect of his or her accounting period, then, for the purposes of this subsection, that balance shall be deemed to be payable on a day (in this subsection referred to as the “accrual day”) which is 6 months prior to the final day for the furnishing of a return in accordance with section 77 (2)(b) and simple interest in accordance with this section shall apply from that accrual day.
(b) Where an authorised person can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Collector-General that the amount of interest payable on the balance, in accordance with this subsection, is greater than the sum of the amounts of interest which would have been payable in accordance with this section if—
(i) the authorised person were not so authorised,
(ii) the person had submitted a return in accordance with section 76 (1) for each taxable period comprising the accounting period, and
(iii) the amounts which were paid by direct debit during a taxable period are deemed to have been paid on the due date for submission of that return for that taxable period,
then that sum of the amounts of interest is payable.
(4) Subsections (1) and (2) shall apply—
(a) to tax recoverable by virtue of a notice under section 110 as if the tax were tax which the person was liable to pay for the respective taxable period or periods comprised in the notice, and
(b) to tax recoverable by virtue of a notice under section 111 (whether a notice of appeal under that section is received or not) as if the tax were tax which the person was liable to pay for the taxable period or, as the case may be, the later or latest taxable period included in the period comprised in the notice.
num: 115
paragraphs: —(1) A person who does not comply with section 65 (3), 82 , 86 (1) or 124 (7)(a) or Chapter 2 , 3 or 7 of Part 9 or any provision of regulations in regard to any matter to which those sections or Chapters relate shall be liable to a penalty of €4,000.
(2) A person who is not a registered person and who, on or after 1 November 1972, issues an invoice in which an amount of tax is stated shall be liable to a penalty of €4,000.
(3) Any person who, otherwise than under and in accordance with section 68 (2)(a) or 86 (1) issues an invoice in which an amount of flat-rate addition is stated shall be liable to a penalty of €4,000.
(4) Where a person referred to in subsection (1), (2) or (3) is a body of persons, the secretary shall be liable to a separate penalty of €4,000.
(5) A person who does not comply with section 108 (5) or with a requirement of an authorised officer under that section shall be liable to a penalty of €4,000.
(6) Where—
(a) a person is authorised in accordance with section 98 (2)(a) to inspect any immovable goods for the purpose of reporting to the Revenue Commissioners the open market value of an interest in those goods, and
(b) the person having custody or possession of those goods prevents such inspection or obstructs the person so authorised in the performance of his or her functions in relation to the inspection,
the person so having custody or possession shall be liable to a penalty of €4,000.
(7) A person who supplies taxable goods or services in contravention of the requirement of security specified in section 109 shall be liable to a penalty of €4,000 in respect of each such supply.
(8) A person who fails to comply with a notice issued under section 124 (7)(b) shall be liable to a penalty of €4,000.
(9) In proceedings for recovery of a penalty under this Act—
(a) a certificate signed by an officer of the Revenue Commissioners which certifies that the officer has inspected the relevant records of the Revenue Commissioners and that it appears from them that, during a stated period, stated particulars or stated returns were not furnished by the defendant shall be evidence until the contrary is proved that the defendant did not, during that period, furnish the particulars or return,
(b) a certificate signed by an officer of the Revenue Commissioners which certifies that the officer has inspected the relevant records of the Revenue Commissioners and that it appears from them that a stated document was duly sent to the defendant on a stated day shall be evidence until the contrary is proved that that person received that document in the ordinary course,
(c) a certificate signed by an officer of the Revenue Commissioners which certifies that the officer has inspected the relevant records of the Revenue Commissioners and that it appears from them that a stated notice was not issued by them to the defendant shall be evidence until the contrary is proved that the defendant did not receive the notice in question,
(d) a certificate signed by an officer of the Revenue Commissioners which certifies that the officer has inspected the relevant records of the Revenue Commissioners and that it appears from them that, during a stated period, the defendant was an accountable person or was not an accountable person shall be evidence until the contrary is proved that, during that period, the defendant was an accountable person or was not an accountable person, as the case may be,
(e) a certificate certifying as provided for in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) and purporting to be signed by an officer of the Revenue Commissioners may be tendered in evidence without proof and shall be deemed, until the contrary is proved, to have been signed by an officer of the Revenue Commissioners.
num: 116
paragraphs: —(1) In this section—
“carelessly” means failure to take reasonable care;
“liability to tax” means a liability to the amount of the difference specified in subsection (11) or (12) arising from any matter referred to in subsection (2), (3), (5) or (6);
“period” means taxable period, accounting period or other period, as the context requires;
“prompted qualifying disclosure”, in relation to a person, means a qualifying disclosure that has been made to the Revenue Commissioners or to a Revenue officer in the period between—
(a) the date on which a person is notified by a Revenue officer of the date on which an investigation or inquiry into any matter occasioning a liability to tax of that person will start, and
(b) the date that the investigation or inquiry starts;
“qualifying disclosure”, in relation to a person, means—
(a) in relation to a penalty referred to in subsection (4), a disclosure that the Revenue Commissioners are satisfied is a disclosure of—
(i) complete information in relation to, and full particulars of, all matters occasioning a liability to tax that gives rise to a penalty referred to in subsection (4), and
(ii) full particulars of all matters occasioning any liability to tax or duty that gives rise to—
(I) a penalty referred to in section 1077E(4) of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 ,
(II) a penalty referred to in section 134A(2) of the Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999 , and
(III) the application of section 1077E(4) of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 to the Capital Acquisitions Tax Consolidation Act 2003 ,
and
(b) in relation to a penalty referred to in subsection (7), a disclosure that the Revenue Commissioners are satisfied is a disclosure of complete information in relation to, and full particulars of, all matters occasioning a liability to tax that gives rise to a penalty referred to in subsection (7) for the relevant period,
and which is made in writing to the Revenue Commissioners or to a Revenue officer and signed by or on behalf of that person and is accompanied by—
(A) a declaration, to the best of that person’s knowledge, information and belief, made in writing that all matters contained in the disclosure are correct and complete, and
(B) a payment of the tax and duty payable in respect of any matter contained in the disclosure and the interest on late payment of that tax and duty;
“Revenue officer” means an officer of the Revenue Commissioners;
“unprompted qualifying disclosure”, in relation to a person, means a qualifying disclosure that the Revenue Commissioners are satisfied has been voluntarily furnished to them—
(a) before an investigation or inquiry had been started by them or by a Revenue officer into any matter occasioning a liability to tax of that person, or
(b) where the person is notified by a Revenue officer of the date on which an investigation or inquiry into any matter occasioning a liability to tax of that person will start, before that notification.
(2) Where a person furnishes a return or makes a claim or declaration for the purposes of this Act or of regulations and, in so doing, the person deliberately—
(a) furnishes an incorrect return, or
(b) makes an incorrect claim or declaration,
then that person shall be liable to a penalty.
(3) Where a person deliberately fails to comply with a requirement in accordance with this Act or regulations to furnish a return, then the person shall be liable to a penalty.
(4) The penalty referred to—
(a) in subsection (2), shall be the amount specified in subsection (11), and
(b) in subsection (3), shall be the amount specified in subsection (12),
reduced, where the person liable to the penalty cooperated fully with any investigation or inquiry started by the Revenue Commissioners or by a Revenue officer into any matter occasioning a liability to tax of that person, to—
(i) 75 per cent of that amount where paragraph (ii) or (iii) does not apply,
(ii) 50 per cent of that amount where a prompted qualifying disclosure is made by that person,
(iii) 10 per cent of that amount where an unprompted qualifying disclosure has been made by that person.
(5) Where a person furnishes a return or makes a claim or declaration for the purposes of this Act or of regulations and, in so doing, the person carelessly but not deliberately—
(a) furnishes an incorrect return, or
(b) makes an incorrect claim or declaration,
then that person shall be liable to a penalty.
(6) Where a person carelessly but not deliberately fails to comply with a requirement in accordance with this Act or regulations to furnish a return, then the person shall be liable to a penalty.
(7)(a) The penalty referred to—
(i) in subsection (5), shall be the amount specified in subsection (11), and
(ii) in subsection (6), shall be the amount specified in subsection (12),
reduced to 40 per cent in cases where the excess referred to in subparagraph (I) of paragraph (b) applies and to 20 per cent in other cases.
(b) Where the person liable to the penalty cooperated fully with any investigation or inquiry started by the Revenue Commissioners or by a Revenue officer into any matter occasioning a liability to tax of that person, the penalty referred to—
(i) in subsection (5), shall be the amount specified in subsection (11), and
(ii) in subsection (6), shall be the amount specified in subsection (12),
reduced—
(I) where the difference referred to in subsection (11) or (12), as the case may be, exceeds 15 per cent of the amount referred to in paragraph (b) of subsection (11) or paragraph (b) of subsection (12), to—
(A) 30 per cent of that difference where clause (B) or (C) does not apply,
(B) 20 per cent of that difference where a prompted qualifying disclosure is made by that person,
(C) 5 per cent of that difference where an unprompted qualifying disclosure is made by that person,
or
(II) where the difference referred to in subsection (11) or (12), as the case may be, does not exceed 15 per cent of the amount referred to in paragraph (b) of subsection (11) or paragraph (b) of subsection (12) to—
(A) 15 per cent of that difference where clause (B) or (C) does not apply,
(B) 10 per cent of that difference where a prompted qualifying disclosure is made by that person,
(C) 3 per cent of that difference where an unprompted qualifying disclosure is made by that person.
(8) Where, for the purposes of this Act or of regulations, a person deliberately or carelessly produces, furnishes, gives, sends or otherwise makes use of, any incorrect invoice, registration number, credit note, debit note, receipt, account, voucher, bank statement, estimate, statement, information, book, document or record, then the person shall be liable to—
(a) a penalty of €3,000 where that person has acted carelessly,
(b) a penalty of €5,000 where that person has acted deliberately.
(9) Where any return, claim or declaration as is referred to in subsection (2) or (5) was furnished or made by a person, neither deliberately nor carelessly, and it comes to the person’s notice that it was incorrect, then, unless the error is remedied without unreasonable delay, the return, claim or declaration shall be treated for the purposes of this section as having been deliberately made or submitted by that person.
(10) Subject to section 1077D(2) of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 , proceedings or applications for the recovery of any penalty under this section shall not be out of time by reason that they are commenced after the time allowed by section 113 .
(11) The amount referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (4) and in paragraph (a)(i) of subsection (7) shall be the difference between—
(a) the amount of tax (if any) paid or claimed by the person concerned for the relevant period on the basis of the incorrect return, claim or declaration as furnished or otherwise made, and
(b) the amount properly payable by, or refundable to, that person for that period.
(12) The amount referred to in paragraph (b) of subsection (4) and in paragraph (b)(ii) of subsection (7) shall be the difference between—
(a) the amount of tax (if any) paid by that person for the relevant period before the start, by the Revenue Commissioners or by any Revenue officer, of any inquiry or investigation where the Revenue Commissioners had announced publicly that they had started an inquiry or investigation or where the Revenue Commissioners have, or a Revenue officer has, carried out an inquiry or investigation in respect of any matter that would have been included in the return if the return had been furnished by that person and the return had been correct, and
(b) the amount of tax properly payable by that person for that period.
(13) Where a second qualifying disclosure is made by a person within 5 years of that person’s first qualifying disclosure, then, as regards matters pertaining to that second disclosure—
(a) in relation to subsection (4)—
(i) paragraph (ii) shall apply as if “75 per cent” were substituted for “50 per cent”, and
(ii) paragraph (iii) shall apply as if “55 per cent” were substituted for “10 per cent”,
and
(b) in relation to subparagraph (I) of subsection (7)(b)—
(i) clause (B) shall apply as if “30 per cent” were substituted for “20 per cent”, and
(ii) clause (C) shall apply as if “20 per cent” were substituted for “5 per cent”.
(14) Where a third or subsequent qualifying disclosure is made by a person within 5 years of that person’s second qualifying disclosure, then, as regards matters pertaining to that third or subsequent disclosure, as the case may be—
(a) the penalty referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (4) shall not be reduced, and
(b) the reduction referred to in subparagraph (I) of subsection (7)(b) shall not apply.
(15) A disclosure in relation to a person shall not be a qualifying disclosure where—
(a) before the disclosure is made, a Revenue officer had started an inquiry or investigation into any matter contained in that disclosure and had contacted or notified that person, or a person representing that person, in this regard, or
(b) matters contained in the disclosure are matters—
(i) that have become known, or are about to become known, to the Revenue Commissioners through their own investigations or through an investigation conducted by a statutory body or agency,
(ii) that are within the scope of an inquiry being carried out wholly or partly in public, or
(iii) to which the person who made the disclosure is linked, or about to be linked, publicly.
(16) For the purposes of this section, any return, claim or declaration submitted on behalf of a person shall be deemed to have been submitted by that person unless that person proves that it was submitted without that person’s consent or knowledge.
(17) Where a person referred to in subsection (2), (3), (5) or (6) is a body of persons, the secretary shall be liable to a separate penalty of €1,500 or, in the case of deliberate behaviour, €3,000.
(18) Where a person, in a case in which the person represents that he or she is a registered person or that goods imported by him or her were so imported for the purposes of a business carried on by him or her, improperly procures the importation of goods without payment of tax in circumstances in which tax is chargeable, then he or she shall be liable to a penalty of €4,000 and, in addition, he or she shall be liable to pay to the Revenue Commissioners the amount of any tax that should have been paid on the importation.
(19) Where a person acquires goods without payment of value-added tax (as referred to in the VAT Directive) in another Member State as a result of the declaration of an incorrect registration number, the person shall be liable to a penalty of €4,000 and, in addition, he or she shall be liable to pay to the Revenue Commissioners an amount equal to the amount of tax which would have been chargeable on an intra-Community acquisition of those goods if that declaration had been the declaration of a correct registration number.
(20)(a) Where, in pursuance of regulations made for the purposes of section 57 (1), tax on the supply of any goods has been remitted or repaid and—
(i) either—
(I) those goods are found in the State after the date on which they were alleged to have been or were to be exported, or
(II) any condition specified in the regulations or imposed by the Revenue Commissioners is not complied with,
and
(ii) the presence of the goods in the State after that date or the non-compliance with the condition has not been authorised for the purposes of this subsection by the Revenue Commissioners,
then—
(A) the goods shall be liable to forfeiture, and
(B) subject to paragraph (b), the tax which was remitted or repaid shall be charged upon and become payable forthwith by the person to whom the goods were supplied or any person in whose possession the goods are found in the State and sections 960I(1), 960J, 960L and 960N of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 shall apply accordingly.
(b) The Revenue Commissioners may, if they think fit, waive payment of the whole or part of the tax referred to in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (a).
(21)(a) For the purposes of this section “the declaration of an incorrect registration number” means—
(i) the declaration by a person of another person’s registration number,
(ii) the declaration by a person of a number which is not an actual registration number which the person purports to be his or her registration number,
(iii) the declaration by a person of a registration number which is cancelled,
(iv) the declaration by a person of a registration number which was obtained from the Revenue Commissioners by supplying incorrect information, or
(v) the declaration by a person of a registration number which was obtained from the Revenue Commissioners for the purposes of acquiring goods without payment of value-added tax referred to in the VAT Directive, and not for any bona fide business purpose.
(b) Where goods—
num: 117
paragraphs: — Any person who assists in or induces the making or delivery, for the purposes of tax, of any return, invoice, claim, credit note, debit note, receipt, account, voucher, bank statement, estimate, statement, information, book, document, record or declaration which he or she knows to be incorrect shall be liable to a penalty of €4,000.
num: 118
paragraphs: — Section 1065 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 shall apply to any penalty incurred under this Act.
num: 119
paragraphs: —(1) Any person aggrieved by a determination of the Revenue Commissioners in relation to—
(a) the treatment of one or more persons as a single accountable person in accordance with section 15 ,
(b) the treatment of a person who allows supplies to be made on land owned, occupied or controlled by that person, as jointly and severally liable with another person, in accordance with section 17 (1),
(c) a determination under section 18 (1) or 38 ,
(d) the refusal of an application for authorisation to operate as a VAT refunding agent (within the meaning assigned by section 58 (1)) or the cancellation of any such authorisation,
(e) a liability to tax under section 69 (1) or (2),
(f) the refusal to approve (either wholly or partly) a refund application made under section 101 ,
(g) a charge of tax in accordance with regulations, or
(h) a claim for repayment of tax,
against which an appeal to the Appeal Commissioners is not otherwise provided for under this Act may, on giving notice in writing to the Revenue Commissioners within 21 days after the notification, to the person so aggrieved of the determination, appeal to the Appeal Commissioners.
(2) Where a person is aggrieved by a decision of the Revenue Commissioners that the person is not an accountable person, then he or she may, on giving notice in writing to the Revenue Commissioners within 21 days after the notification of that decision to him or her, appeal to the Appeal Commissioners.
(3) For the purpose of subsection (1)(f), a failure by the Revenue Commissioners to make a decision in respect of a refund application within the time limits set out in section 101 (9) is to be treated as a decision to refuse the application.
(4) The provisions of the Income Tax Acts relating to—
(a) the appointment of times and places for the hearing of appeals,
(b) the giving of notice to each person who has given notice of appeal of the time and place appointed for the hearing of his or her appeal,
(c) the determination of an appeal by agreement between the appellant and an inspector of taxes or other officer appointed by the Revenue Commissioners in that behalf,
(d) the determination of an appeal by the appellant giving notice of his or her intention not to proceed with the appeal,
(e) the refusal of an application for an appeal hearing,
(f) the hearing and determination of an appeal by the Appeal Commissioners (including the hearing and determination of an appeal by one Appeal Commissioner),
(g) the publication of reports of determinations of the Appeal Commissioners,
(h) the determination of an appeal through the failure of a person who has given notice of appeal to attend before the Appeal Commissioners at the time and place appointed,
(i) the refusal of an application for the adjournment of any proceedings in relation to an appeal, and the dismissing of an appeal, by the Appeal Commissioners,
(j) the extension of the time for giving notice of appeal, and the readmission of appeals by the Appeal Commissioners,
(k) the rehearing of an appeal by a judge of the Circuit Court and the statement of a case for the opinion of the High Court on a point of law,
(l) the payment of tax which is agreed not to be in dispute in relation to an appeal, and
(m) the procedures for appeal,
shall, subject to the modifications to those Acts specified in subsection (5) for the purposes of this subsection and to other necessary modifications, apply to an appeal under section 51 , 109 or 111 or this section, or a claim under section 110 , as if the appeal or claim were an appeal against an assessment to income tax.
(5) The modifications to the Income Tax Acts for the purposes of subsection (4) are—
(a) a reference to a year of assessment shall include a reference to the periods concerned,
(b) a reference to a return of income shall include a reference to a return required to be made under Chapter 3 of Part 9 ,
(c) a reference to interest shall include a reference to interest payable under section 114 .
(6) Where an appeal is brought against an assessment or an amended assessment made on a taxable person for a taxable period, the person shall specify in the notice of appeal—
(a) each amount or matter in the assessment or amended assessment with respect to which the person is aggrieved, and
(b) the grounds, in detail, of the person’s appeal in relation to each such amount or matter.
(7) The taxable person is not entitled to rely on any ground of appeal that is not specified in the notice of appeal unless—
(a) the Appeal Commissioners are satisfied,
(b) in the case of a rehearing of the appeal, the judge of the Circuit Court is satisfied,
that the ground could not reasonably have been stated in that notice.
num: 120
paragraphs: —(1) The Revenue Commissioners shall make such regulations as seem to them to be necessary for the purpose of giving effect to this Act and of enabling them to discharge their functions thereunder and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the regulations may make provision in relation to all or any of the matters specified in subsections (2) to (15).
(2) As regards Part 2 , regulations may provide for the manner in which a person may elect to be an accountable person and any such election may be cancelled, the treatment of an accountable person as a person who is not an accountable person, and the adjustments (including a charge of tax) which may be made as a condition of any such cancellation or treatment.
(3) As regards Part 3 , regulations may provide for the treatment under section 27 (1) of the use and services specified therein as services supplied by a person for consideration in the course of business.
(4) As regards Part 4 , regulations may provide for the circumstances in which a person may exercise an election referred to in section 30 (2).
(5) As regards Part 5 , regulations may provide for—
(a) the adjustment of the liability of an accountable person who supplies goods or services and of the liability of an accountable person to whom goods or services are supplied where—
(i) goods are returned,
(ii) the consideration is reduced,
(iii) a bad debt is incurred, or
(iv) a discount is allowed,
(b) the making of a determination under section 38 ,
(c) the methods which may be used for the purposes of applying section 44 .
(6) As regards Part 6 , regulations may provide for—
(a) the manner in which any amount may be apportioned (including the methods of apportionment which may be applied for the purposes of section 47 (1) and (2)),
(b) the circumstances or conditions under which a supply may or may not be treated as an ancillary supply, a composite supply, an individual supply, a multiple supply or a principal supply,
(c) a relatively small amount, or an element of a supply, which may be disregarded for the purposes of applying section 47 ,
(d) the manner in which a determination may be made for the purposes of section 51 .
(7) As regards Part 7 , regulations may provide for—
(a) the repayment, in accordance with section 54 (2), of tax chargeable on the importation of goods,
(b) the enabling of goods imported by registered persons or by such classes of registered persons as may be specified in the regulations for the purposes of a business carried on by them to be delivered or removed, subject to such conditions or restrictions as may be specified in the regulations or as the Revenue Commissioners may impose, without payment of the tax chargeable on the importation, and
(c) the tax to be accounted for by the persons or classes of persons referred to in paragraph (b) in the return, made by them under section 76 or 77 , in respect of the taxable period during which the goods are so delivered or removed.
(8) As regards Part 8 , regulations may provide for—
(a) the deduction of tax chargeable in respect of intra-Community acquisitions,
(b) the manner in which the deduction entitlement referred to in section 59 (2)(d) may be calculated,
(c) the manner in which residual tax referred to in section 59 (2)(l) may be calculated and deducted,
(d) the operation of the capital goods scheme and in particular the duration of a subsequent interval where the accounting year of a capital goods owner changes,
(e) the adjustments to be made by an accountable person of any apportionment referred to in paragraph (g) or deduction under Chapter 1 of Part 8 previously made, being adjustments by reference to changes, occurring not later than 5 years from the end of the taxable period to which the original apportionment or deduction relates—
(i) in any of the matters by reference to which the apportionment or deduction was made or allowed, and
(ii) the determination of the taxable period in and from which, or in which, any such adjustment is to take effect,
(f) the relief (if any) to be given to an accountable person in respect of tax borne or paid by that person on stock-in-trade held by that person immediately before the commencement of the first taxable period for which that person is deemed to become an accountable person,
(g) any of the following:
(i) the apportionment between the tax which may be deducted under Chapter 1 of Part 8 and tax which may not be deducted under that Chapter;
(ii) the review, by reference to the circumstances obtaining in any period not exceeding one year, of any such apportionment previously made;
(iii) the charge or repayment of tax consequent on any such review;
(iv) the furnishing of particulars by an accountable person to the Revenue Commissioners for the purpose of any such review.
(9) As regards Part 9 , regulations may provide for—
(a) the particulars required for registration and the manner in which registration may be effected and cancelled,
(b) the following:
(i) the form of invoice, credit note, debit note and settlement voucher (including electronic form) required to be used for the purposes of this Act;
(ii) the particulars required to be inserted in such documents or electronically recorded;
(iii) the period within which such documents or electronic data are required to be issued or transmitted; and
(iv) such other conditions in relation to the issue or receipt, in any form, of an invoice, credit note, debit note and settlement voucher as may be imposed by the Revenue Commissioners,
(c) the furnishing of returns and the particulars to be shown thereon,
(d) the time and manner in which tax shall be payable in respect of the goods referred to in section 79 (2) and (3),
(e) the determination, under section 80 , of a person’s tax liability for any period by reference to moneys received and the adjustments (including a charge of tax) which may be made when a person becomes entitled to determine his or her tax liability in such manner or, having been so entitled, ceases to be so entitled, or ceases to be an accountable person,
(f) the following:
(i) the form of statement required to be furnished in accordance with section 82 ;
(ii) the particulars to be specified in such statement; and
(iii) the amount or amounts to be applied for the purposes of section 82 (3),
(g) the keeping by accountable persons of records and the retention of such records and supporting documents or other recorded data,
(h) the keeping by persons trading in investment gold (within the meaning of section 90 ) of records and the retention of such records and supporting documents or other recorded data.
(10) As regards Part 10 , regulations may provide for—
(a) the conditions for a taxable dealer to opt to apply the margin scheme to certain supplies in accordance with section 87 (4),
(b) the determination of the aggregate margin in accordance with section 87 (8),
(c) the manner in which the travel agent’s margin scheme referred to in section 88 shall operate,
(d) the form of the invoice or other document that shall be issued in accordance with section 89 (4),
(e) the conditions under which a person may waive his or her right to exemption from tax on the supply of investment gold (within the meaning of section 90 ),
(f) the conditions under which an intermediary (within the meaning of section 90 ) may waive his or her right to exemption from tax on that person’s supply of services,
(g) the conditions under which a person may claim a refund of tax in accordance with section 90 (6)(b), (7)(b) and (8)(b), and the manner in which such refund may be claimed,
(h) the manner in which the electronic services scheme referred to in section 91 shall operate.
(11) As regards Part 11 , regulations may provide for—
(a) the following:
(i) the manner in which exemption in respect of certain services may be waived under section 7 of the repealed enactment and any such waiver may be cancelled under section 96 (3); and
(ii) the adjustments (including a charge of tax) which may be made as a condition of any such cancellation,
(b) the valuation of interests in or over immovable goods,
(c) the specification of the circumstances or conditions under which development work on immovable goods is not treated as being on behalf of, or to the benefit of, a person.
(12) As regards Part 12 , regulations may provide for—
(a) the refund of tax in excess of the amount required by law to be borne, or paid, to the Revenue Commissioners,
(b) the manner in which residual tax referred to in section 104 (1) may be calculated and repaid,
(c) the conditions governing a person’s entitlement to interest in accordance with section 105 .
(13) As regards this Part, regulations may provide for—
(a) the estimation of tax due for a taxable or other period,
(b) the nomination by the Revenue Commissioners of officers to perform any acts and discharge any functions authorised by this Act to be performed or discharged by the Revenue Commissioners,
(c) the manner in which tax is to be recovered in cases of default of payment,
(d) disclosure to the Revenue Commissioners of such information as they may require for the ascertainment of liability to tax,
(e) the remission at the discretion of the Revenue Commissioners of small amounts of tax and interest,
(f) matters consequential on the death of a registered person or on his or her becoming subject to any incapacity, including the treatment of a person of such class or classes as may be specified in the regulations as a person carrying on the business of the deceased or incapacitated person,
(g) the service of notices.
num: 121
paragraphs: — In this Part “repealed enactment” means the Value-Added Tax Act 1972 repealed by section 122 .
num: 122
paragraphs: —(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), the Value-Added Tax Act 1972 is repealed.
(2)(a) This Act shall not apply as respects any taxable period ending on any date prior to 1 November 2010.
(b) The repealed enactment shall continue to apply as respects any taxable period ending on any date prior to 1 November 2010 to the same extent that it would have applied if this Act had not been enacted.
(3) Any provision of the repealed enactment which imposes a fine, forfeiture, penalty or punishment for any act or omission shall, in relation to any act or omission which took place or began before the date of the passing of this Act, continue to apply in substitution for the provision of this Act to which it corresponds.
(4)(a) Subject to paragraph (b), anything done under or in connection with the provisions of the repealed enactment which correspond to the provisions of this Act shall be deemed to have been done under or in connection with the provisions of this Act to which those provisions of the repealed enactment correspond.
(b) Nothing in this subsection shall affect the operation of section 124 (3) and (4).
num: 123
paragraphs: —(1) Schedule 7 , which provides for amendments to other enactments consequential on the passing of this Act, shall apply for the purposes of this Act.
num: 124
paragraphs: —(1) The Revenue Commissioners shall have all the jurisdictions, powers and duties in relation to value-added tax under this Act which they had before the passing of this Act.
(2) The continuity of the operation of the law relating to value-added tax shall not be affected by the substitution of this Act for the repealed enactment.
(3) Any reference, whether express or implied, in any enactment or document (including this Act and any enactment amended by this Act)—
(a) to any provision of this Act, or
(b) to things done or to be done under or for the purposes of any provision of this Act,
shall, if and in so far as the nature of the reference permits, be construed as including, in relation to the times, years or periods, circumstances or purposes in relation to which the corresponding provision in the repealed enactment applied or had applied, a reference to, or, as the case may be, to things done or to be done under or for the purposes of, that corresponding provision.
(4) Any reference, whether express or implied, in any enactment or document (including the repealed enactment and enactments passed and documents made after the passing of this Act)—
(a) to any provision of the repealed enactment, or
(b) to things done or to be done under or for the purposes of any provision of the repealed enactment,
shall, if and in so far as the nature of the reference permits, be construed as including, in relation to the times, years or periods, circumstances or purposes in relation to which the corresponding provision of this Act applies, a reference to, or as the case may be, to things done or deemed to be done or to be done under or for the purposes of, that corresponding provision.
(5) All instruments, documents, determinations, authorisations, letters or notices of appointment made or issued under the repealed enactment and in force immediately before the commencement of this Act shall continue in force as if made or issued under this Act.
(6) The validity of any determination made under subsection (3E) of section 8 of the Principal Act (within the meaning of section 112 of the Finance Act 2010 ) before 8 March 2008 by an authorised officer within the meaning of such subsection (3E) shall not be affected by paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of the Finance Act 2010 , and any such determination shall continue in force as if such paragraph (c) had not been enacted.
(7)(a) Every taxable dealer to whom section 12B or 12C of the repealed enactment applied shall, in addition to records required to be kept in accordance with any provision of Chapter 7 of Part 9 and regulations, keep a record of—
(i) the name and address of each person from whom the taxable dealer purchased or acquired a means of transport or, as the case may be, agricultural machinery in the period from 1 January 2010 to 30 June 2010 in relation to which the taxable dealer deducted residual tax in accordance with such section 12B or 12C, as the case may be,
(ii) the date on which such means of transport or agricultural machinery was so purchased or acquired,
(iii) the amount of the residual tax so deducted in relation to each such means of transport or agricultural machinery, and
(iv) the vehicle registration number of each such means of transport or, as the case may be, details of the make, model and, where appropriate, the year of manufacture, the engine number and registration number of each such agricultural machine.
(b) A taxable dealer to whom section 12B or 12C of the repealed enactment applied shall, on receipt of a notice in writing to that effect from an officer of the Revenue Commissioners, furnish to that officer within the time specified in the notice (which shall not be less than 21 days from the date of the notice), or to such other officer of the Commissioners as may be specified in the notice, a copy of the information required to be kept by the taxable dealer under paragraph (a).
num: 125
paragraphs: — This Act shall be deemed to have come into force and apply as respects any taxable period commencing on or after 1 November 2010.