An intending trader is a trader who applies for VAT registration before starting a business or making taxable supplies. A person can register himself as an intender trader but the person has to mandatorily satisfy HMRC that he is intending to start a business and has an intention to make taxable supplies in course of that business or in near future.
A person should satisfy following conditions –
Once the condition of registration are satisfied, registration date can be date of application or from the agreed between individual and HMRC. More the evidence is produced of a genuine taxable business activity; early the HMRC will be satisfied. Some of the examples of the evidences are Lease agreement, Planning permission, signed contracts & purchase invoices.
In order to reclaim input tax incurred at the time of setting up & development of the business, intended trader generally wants registration from the earliest date when he started incurring expenses in relation to business set up. In some of the cases, amount involved may be significant and covers a long period of time.
In case a trader has not made any taxable supplies and wants to register as an intending trader, they should tell these two things to HMRC by filing the box 12 of form VAT 1 -
Documentation is the most important part of intending trader application. More the documents in support of your application, more early the registration will be done. The documents needed to support an application for voluntary registration includes –
VAT registration is one of the most important aspects of a business and every business should be VAT registered. VAT payments collected by the businesses are submitted to HMRC. HMRC made a provision for you to register for VAT as an “intending trader”. You can still apply for VAT registration even if you are not having taxable supplies for some time.
The concept of intending trader VAT registration helps potential businesses to declare VAT in the following ways –
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