VAT Update: July 2009

The latest VAT issues from first tier tax tribunal decisions, amended VAT rates and HMRC updates to relief schemes

Online insurance brokerage

Following the inconsistent VAT tribunal decisions in the cases of InsuranceWide.com Services Limited and Trader Media Group Limited, the High Court has now produced a consistent ruling on the two almost identical services involved. In general this went in favour of the taxpayer in both cases. However, the decision was limited to answering a specific question rather than deciding the cases as such. The answer to that question could be sufficient to decide the cases, and HM Revenue & Customs might have accepted that this was the case for these two taxpayers.

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