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Julian B
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Apologies if this has been covered somewhere else, but I've tried searching and keep getting a blank page.
I'm a sole trader, running a small business from home part time and advertising through Google's adwords. I am not VAT registered as my income is WELL below the compulsory VAT limit.
Google has been pulled up recently on their VAT because their office is registered in Ireland and has been charging VAT at 21% (The rate in Ireland) since they started back in 2004.
I received an email from them before Xmas asking me to log in to my account and state if I was using my account for business purposes and to provide my VAT number if I had one. I did so, and left the VAT registration number empty because I don't have one.
I then received a cheque in Jan for the Irish VAT that I have paid over the last 3 years of trading and an instruction to pay VAT on the charges at UK rates.
As I said, I'm not VAT registered, and I don't want to be as in my line of business I can't afford to add VAT onto my prices (it'd make the business uncompetitive) and can't afford to the charges out of my own pocket, so I'm not sure how I CAN pay VAT on the charges?
Google are being completely unhelpful - standard answer is "you're using it for business purposes, we're not charging you VAT, you pay it".
What am I supposed to do?? How do I Pay VAT on their charges? Should I be paying VAT?
Julian
I'm a sole trader, running a small business from home part time and advertising through Google's adwords. I am not VAT registered as my income is WELL below the compulsory VAT limit.
Google has been pulled up recently on their VAT because their office is registered in Ireland and has been charging VAT at 21% (The rate in Ireland) since they started back in 2004.
I received an email from them before Xmas asking me to log in to my account and state if I was using my account for business purposes and to provide my VAT number if I had one. I did so, and left the VAT registration number empty because I don't have one.
I then received a cheque in Jan for the Irish VAT that I have paid over the last 3 years of trading and an instruction to pay VAT on the charges at UK rates.
As I said, I'm not VAT registered, and I don't want to be as in my line of business I can't afford to add VAT onto my prices (it'd make the business uncompetitive) and can't afford to the charges out of my own pocket, so I'm not sure how I CAN pay VAT on the charges?
Google are being completely unhelpful - standard answer is "you're using it for business purposes, we're not charging you VAT, you pay it".
What am I supposed to do?? How do I Pay VAT on their charges? Should I be paying VAT?
Julian