Hi, I'm bookkeeping for film production companies and still learning many aspects of this. For film you have to start a new company for each production.
I have a situation where there are two companies both VAT registered.
One company (A) needs the second company (B) to pay short term car hire purely for business/a film shoot. If company B pays for this and then later reclaims the VAT, what happens when they invoice company A to pay back the amount. Do they add VAT onto the total cost of the original car hire (ie: gross)? I tried speaking to HMRC but they couldn't help. Also not sure how this would be defined - is it a recharge? Any advice from more experienced bookkeepers would be really appreciated. Thanks