VAT – Exercise of a power of sale

Several queries have come up on this during 2014.  Getting it right can be tricky.  The principle is that where a business is carried on by a taxable person and goods forming part of that business are sold by a third party exercising a power of sale, those goods are deemed to be supplied by the taxable person in the course or furtherance of his business and VAT is chargeable (or not) on that basis.

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CGT – Entrepreneurs’ relief and compensation

In 2002 M who was suffering from ill health sold his interest in a thriving accountancy practice to the other two partners, C and P.  Entrepreneurs’ relief was available on the gain attributable to the goodwill at the time of disposal. In 2011, M discovered that C and P had deliberately used incorrect figures to calculate the value of the goodwill.

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