VAT for Accounts Payable Staff

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COURSE OBJECTIVES: The course is designed to enable delegates to recognise recoverable and non-recoverable input tax and to be aware of evidence required for input tax recovery. At the end of the course delegates will be able to review typical invoices and state whether or not VAT can be recovered.


COURSE CONTENT


When VAT Can Be Claimed

  • Tax points

  • The effect of deposits

  • Payment with no invoice


Evidence Needed to Reclaim VAT

  • Full VAT invoices - all the requirements

  • VAT numbers and how to check them

  • Less detailed tax invoices - all the requirements and when they are acceptable

  • Imports and acquisitions

  • Circumstances in which no invoice is needed

  • Pro forma invoices


How Much VAT to Reclaim

  • Purchase VAT which is never reclaimable

  • The effect of partial exemption and ''non-business'' activities

  • Discounts - cash, quantity and contingent


Specific Expenses

  • In the ''course or furtherance'' of the business

  • Director''s expenses

  • Employee''s expenses and subsistence

  • Employees resident abroad

  • Motor cars, motor car accessories and fuel

  • Business entertainment and business promotions

  • Staff catering and staff parties

  • The ''reverse charge'' on services from abroad

  • Land and buildings

  • Self supplies and change of use


WHO SHOULD ATTEND


Staff employed in the accounting teams of large, medium and small enterprises who are responsible for checking and posting purchase invoices.


"The speaker has a great knowledge of VAT and is great with helping the overall understanding of VAT."


"The course was very informative and the lecturer ensured that all delegates had a good understanding. He answered all questions well and enabled the course to be tailored to the specific occurences within the organisations represented at the course as well as generally."


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Tim Buss  Director, Tim Buss VAT Consultants Ltd
Tim has been involved with VAT since 1973. He joined HM Customs & Excise (“Customs”) in May 1973, shortly after the introduction of VAT in the UK. He worked as a visiting VAT inspector and as a classroom trainer. Tim left Customs in 1989 and joined accountants PKF as a VAT Consultant responsible for all aspects of VAT. He was appointed director of VAT in 1998. In October 2005, Tim left PKF to set up his own VAT consultancy and training company. In addition to presenting various training courses Tim is a consultant to a number of accountancy firms and other businesses. He has represented clients in a number of high profile VAT Tribunal cases. Tim regularly writes and lectures on a range of VAT topics. In 2005 he wrote a book on VAT and Property Transactions. He was a Council member and for three years was director of education of the Institute of Indirect Taxation. Tim remains an associate of the Institute.

Fees (ex VAT)


Member Fee
£315.00

Non Member Fee £395.00

Locations & Dates
07/03/2012 - London (09:30 am - 05:00 pm) Speaker & Venue Details BOOK >>
18/04/2012 - London (09:30 am - 05:00 pm) Speaker & Venue Details BOOK >>
13/06/2012 - London (09:30 am - 05:00 pm) Speaker & Venue Details BOOK >>
03/10/2012 - London (09:30 am - 05:00 pm) Speaker & Venue Details BOOK >>
14/11/2012 - London (09:30 am - 05:00 pm) Speaker & Venue Details BOOK >>