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Changes to VAT registration offices

01/10/2007

HM Revenue & Customs have announced that with effect from 1 October 2007 all general paper VAT registration applications must be sent to the Wolverhampton VAT office.

The offices to which special registration applications must be sent are as follows:

• VAT group applications, applications involving the transfer of an existing VAT number, or the Flat Rate or Annual Accounting Schemes - Grimsby VAT Registration Office.

• Applications involving the Agricultural Flat Rate Scheme - Carmarthen VAT Registration Office.

• Applications by persons with no business establishment, agent or tax representative in the UK - Non Established Taxable Persons Unit, Aberdeen.

Online applications can still be made, and for the moment these will continue to be directed to the Carmarthen, Grimsby, Newry and Wolverhampton offices.

Click here for addresses and telephone numbers of all offices.

It is most surprising that this reorganisation should have been carried out at a time when there are almost 50,000 outstanding applications, and businesses are having to wait up to several months to become registered. Whilst there may be long-term benefits, there must surely be an adverse short-term effect, and one would have thought that HMRC would have waited until the current backlog had been cleared first.

Please contact us if you require assistance with VAT registration or any related matter.

 

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