DASVOIT ― the hallmarks

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Value Added Tax

Guidance

This guidance note provides details of the hallmarks for VAT and indirect tax arrangements where it is necessary for the promoter or the user to notify HMRC under the DASVOIT regulations. This note should be read in conjunction with the Disclosure of tax avoidance schemes for VAT and other indirect taxes (DASVOIT) ― introduction, DASVOIT ― notifiable arrangements and making the notification and DASVOIT ― penalties and powers guidance notes.

Background

The relevant anti-avoidance legislation specifies a number of descriptions of arrangements that HMRC refers to as hallmarks. Hallmarks 1(a), 1(b), 2, 3 and 4 apply across all the indirect taxes including VAT and hallmarks 5, 6, 7 and 8 apply only to VAT.

HMRC states in its guidance that the hallmarks are not mutually exclusive and that an arrangement can be hallmarked by virtue of satisfying one or more of the hallmarks outlined below. HMRC also goes on to state that the absence of a hallmark for a particular arrangement cannot be viewed as constituting practices that will be acceptable to HMRC. HMRC will

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