A query on behalf of a former client (who dumped me to give my work to a horse groom as it would be cheaper!)
The VAT Return was submitted online with correct VAT owing, but boxes 6 and 7 also included the VAT elements, rather than excluding them.
Is this a capital crime? The VAT Helpdesk told her to complete the Notification of Errors form but this is only concerned with correcting the VAT liability declaration.
If there's anything she should do I'd not like to leave her in the dark; she's tried the official help already but I'm wondering if anyone else has come across (or done) this in the past.
I don't know the answer, Andrew, but you're being too kind. If it was me I'd tell her to ask her horse groom. Unless she's realised that cheap isn't the be all and end all and you have a chance to gain her as a client once more.
Kris
-- Edited by kjmcculloch83 on Thursday 3rd of November 2011 01:54:55 PM
I'd certainly charge her for the advice and the time it takes you to research the answer. My feeling (although not direct experience) is that the VAT office do, indeed want her to complete form 652; indicating the period when the error occured and noting at the top a description of the error and that there was no loss of VAT to the exchequer.
Just to complete the story, in case anyone else comes across the problem, I spoke to the VAT Error Correction Team who said that the VAT652 should be filled in and sent to them, giving them the correct figures for boxes 6 and 7 so that they could update them on the system.
I guess that all goes into the narrative section; there are no corrections to be made to the vat figures so the table itself would not be completed.
