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Falling foul of the VAT rules can be an expensive mistake, resulting in an unwanted HMRC penalty or inspection visit. Robert Marchant, VAT partner at Crowe, runs through some fundamentals on compliance from property transactions to import VAT reclaims and intra-group arrangements