Partial exemption ― related issues

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Guidance

This guidance examines a number of important issues related to partial exemption.

For an overview of partial exemption more broadly, see the Partial exemption ― overview guidance note.

For in-depth commentary on the legislation and case law, see De Voil Indirect Tax Service V3.460.

Claiming late input VAT under partial exemption

If a partially exempt business fails to recover input tax that it is entitled to in the correct VAT return period, then it can normally make a ‘belated’ claim for the input tax. There are time limits (or ‘capping rules’) on making this sort of claim and input tax cannot be claimed more than four years after the due date for the VAT return it should have been included on.

If the annual adjustment is not capped under the capping provisions, but earlier periods covered by the annual adjustment are affected, the business can use the annual adjustment to recalculate the amount of recoverable VAT for the longer period. However, if a business has made an error in an earlier period, it cannot

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