Getting to Grips with VAT and Property

This course is designed for property practitioners seeking to get to grips with VAT and its application to property. This is a notoriously difficult area where clear guidance is needed. Both speakers are expert in this field and part of their individual consultancy practices deal with giving advice to property owners, accountants and solicitors on a very regular basis.

This course will cover:

• VAT Liabilities: standard, lower, zero and exempt
• Input tax on third party fees
• Taxable person and registration
• Partial Exemption and the Capital Goods Scheme
• Application to residential property: zero rating, definition of dwelling, construction, conversion
• Reduced rate, conversions, renovation and refurbishment
• Application to commercial property: exemption of grants, exclusions from exemption
• Assignments, surrenders, reverse surrenders
• Options to tax, grants not effected by option & recent developments
• Mixed Developments
• Standard Enquiries & contracts
• Transfers of Going Concerns: options to tax, timing and anti-avoidance

Course Dates

27/06/2012 London	09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information
19/09/2012 Leeds	09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information
10/10/2012 London	09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information

Andrew Walls 
has twenty years' experience in VAT formerly with Customs and Excise as a visiting officer and in private accountancy practice with major firms and is now the principle consultant in Hiland Consulting specialising in advise to practice and in training.