VAT: Key Issues

(15 reviews)

by Andrew Law

Revised and up to date for 2025/26. VAT is complicated. It's a minefield of regulations, exceptions, and exceptions to exceptions. This course simplifies the issues, ensures compliance, and provides ways you can save money on VAT.

price £100+vat
cpd hours 4 CPD hours
access 120 days' access

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This course will enable you to

  • Get to grips with the full scope of VAT and its implications
  • Comply with VAT regulations
  • Know when and how to register and deregister for VAT
  • Make use of special schemes that could save you money
  • Understand how VAT applies to business transfers
  • Recognise how VAT relates to property
  • Correctly account for various taxes, such as corporation tax and employment taxes

About the course

VAT is a vast subject with its own rules and regulations. While conceptually simple, its many regulations, exceptions, and exceptions to exceptions make it a maze where many get lost.

This course helps you navigate this complex area and comply with VAT regulations. It also provides money-saving solutions for problems you might not even be aware of. It explains when registering for VAT can be beneficial and how both registration and deregistration work. It covers transfers of going concern, government schemes that can ease VAT-related pressures, and VAT implications for property transactions.

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Contents

  • Registration
    • Getting started
    • Getting registered
    • Benefits and drawbacks
    • Avoiding registration
  • Deregistration
    • Thinking about deregistering
    • When to deregister
    • The implications of deregistering
    • Post-deregistration
  • Transfer of going concern
    • Working it out
    • Defining a transfer of going concern
    • What about VAT?
    • VAT implications
    • TOGC and property
  • Special schemes
    • Available schemes
    • Partial exemption
    • The Flat Rate Scheme
    • A scheme for me
    • Other schemes
  • VAT and property
    • Accounting for property
    • Sale of land
    • Waiving exemption
    • Option to tax
  • Quirks and oddities
    • The other stuff
    • Rules for vehicles
    • Private schools
    • Final thoughts

How it works

Author

Andrew Law

Andrew Law has been in professional tax practice for over 30 years advising SME business on taxation matters and has advised on the sale and purchase of numerous businesses of all kinds and sizes.

Reviews

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(15 reviews)
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    KY
    Katherine Y
    18 May 2025
    18 May 2025
    It did not cover Brexit elements too. Otherwise, it was good.
    PM
    Peter M
    18 Apr 2025
    18 Apr 2025
    It covered all the key areas around VAT with examples of the issues to consider. It helped with the a broader understanding of the rules around VAT.
    MH
    M H
    08 Apr 2025
    08 Apr 2025
    It was helpful but sometimes a big hard to follow
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