[BSF]

Tim,

This forum is for helping each other, that is exactly what I have done, instead of ignoring my comments/advice read my post to you, 

You stated that your company wishes it could get vat back, I have told you that if you are vat registered you do get it back,  even if your company charged the builder vat, its not yours to keep, you pay it to customs and excise.

My comments on this post are fact.

Rather than tell me that I am slagging your company off, take note of the advice I have given you, I only did a search on your company out of interest, if you don’t want this to happen remove the logo, through my own preference I choose not to advertise my company’s name for various other reasons.

My comment about not speaking to the office junior wasn’t an insult to any office junior, but by your own admission you said you had a chat with your accounts department who said they wished they could charge vat so they could get back what vat they had paid on materials etc, they can!!  so the comment meant that the person you spoke to doesn’t understand how vat works.

If you aren’t up to agreeing another member is correct, that’s your prerogative,  Sometimes its easier just to swallow your pride and admit that you are wrong.

Kind regards

Paul

[blacksheep]

well said TIM. for six months i struggled on another forum,till some one told me i had a cleaning one to go to, now i have joined this one i have come on in leaps and bounds because of all of us helping each other out and i will hopefully be up and running sooner then i thought.each of us has something to contribute nomatter how big or small we apear. i myself am a dep cleaning manager in a large firm & have years of factory & office cleaning behind me,its interesting to read about other types of cleaning and to learn from others,its not plesent to read others putting people down because they dont have the same opinion you can be constructive without being rude,i hope to continue to use this forum long after i have grown huge huge huge LOL because along the the way i will possibly need help and will be here for the freinds we have yet to meet . just a thought. but the day we close our eyes to the fella behind us because hes thought insignificant ,is the day we lose our edge on our competitor

[BSF]

My comments are fact not opinions….

[Neil Mc Anulty]

Got word back today from the VAT today. The appeals officer has said that I was right not to charge VAT on resedential new builds.

This will save a bit of money thankfully

Neil

 

[BSF]

Got word back today from the VAT today. The appeals officer has said that I was right not to charge VAT on resedential new builds.

This will save a bit of money thankfully

Neil

 

Why will it save you money?

[BSF]

Neil

That wasnt a trick question!

please enlighten me as to why you not charging vat will save you money....   ?

[Tim Downer]

Dear all.....

Have had a chat with the "Accounts Manager" and the reason why we cannot charge VAT on the cleaning is that it is seen as a "Labour supplied Service to clean NEW PROPERTIES" and as a labour only service and the fact that we do not have anything to do with the actual construction of the property.....we cannot therefore charge VAT on our Invoices.
However, if the property is occupied on the building site.....we can charge VAT!!!
Confused or what??
That is what I gleamed from the Accounts Manager anyway.
But whatever I did or didn't understand from my conversation, at least as Neil has said on the post above this one, that the VAT man says we are not to charge VAT on the work either.

Regards

Tim

[Neil Mc Anulty]

pfwest


I had not been charging VAT on new builds(rightly so) but I get a visit from the VAT, they decide I should have charged VAT so in that period I was presented with a demand for payment which was 17.5% of my turnover.

Now, on appeal they have decided I was right not to charge on new builds and are no longer demanding 17.5% of my turnover.

Yes I probably could have chased the different builders and asked them to pay the VAT and they could have claimed it back, this would have taken time and money and some of them might not have agreed.

Its hardly rocket scince pfwest.
1 minute I have a bill the next I dont. To me that is saving money,time and hassle

[BSF]

Neil,

Glad you’ve sorted it out, I will carry on charging Vat on new builds, if a builder ever has a problem with it in the future, I would speak to customs and excise and explain the situation before that invoice was due for payment, if they couldn’t give me an answer whether to add vat or not, I don’t think I’d be happy about them demanding money off me.

So I would explain to my customer that I will have to add vat on invoices until I’m told otherwise, I really don’t think they’d mind they get it back anyway, your correct its hardly rocket science.  Then again I’ve never been in a situation like this.

Pfwest.