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Lask


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Does an invoice need to include a VAT registration number in order to be valid?



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fabs79


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Yes, if you are VAT registered. You should never show VAT on your invoices unless you have a VAT registration number to include on the document.
This normally causes some pain when you request to be registered from a specific date and HMRC has not sent you your registration number by that date, as you will not be able to show VAT separately on your invoices until you get the registration number.

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Yes, we have just taken a client who (after a HMRC business records check) is having to pay over 30k back as the vat their previous bookkeeper claimed vat back on supplier invoices with no vat number. The vat was shown on the invoice. Further investigation found that the supplier was not registered for vat and had effectively defrauded my client....... Suppliers ltd company now not trading, comfort that vatman is after him is not enough for having to pay over 30k.........

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Hi Jeremy,

worth taking legal action against the owners for that sort of money.

Get your client to have words with their legal team / representatives as the proprietors of the limited company commited a fraud and that is sufficient to enable a lifting of the veil of incorporation to pursue them personally for the incurred loss (immaterial that the company doesn't exist any more as they're not chasing the company).

Well, they can chase them assuming that they're not already languishing at her majesties pleasure for this anyway!... And even if they are, not sure but I think that you can also sue people who are already in jail.... Certainly makes them easier to track down anyway. lol

kind regards,

Shaun.



-- Edited by Shamus on Tuesday 26th of June 2012 04:10:58 PM

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