Golf Holidays Worldwide Limited v The Commissioners for HMRC
Decision date: 3 August 2023
Neutral citation: [2023] UKFTT 701 (TC)
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Short overview
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Golf Holidays Worldwide appealed HMRC’s rejection of an error correction notice reversing treatment of wholesale supplies under the Tour Operators Margin Scheme (TOMS) for periods 03/17–03/21. The Tribunal held Golf had not made a correctable error under Regulation 35 because it had chosen a lawful accounting option which later proved less advantageous. HMRC’s refusal did not amount to improperly imposing the direct effect of EU law or breach fiscal neutrality. The appeal was dismissed.
Ratio decidendi
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The Tribunal’s operative ratio is that a taxpayer’s election between two lawful VAT accounting methods is not an "error" within Regulation 35 simply because the chosen option later proves less favourable; such an election is not correctable by an ECN.
Obiter dicta
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The Tribunal observed it was unnecessary to decide whether UK domestic law complied with EU law on TOMS because the ECN failed on the Regulation 35 point, and noted that complaints of administrative unfairness by HMRC fall outside the Tribunal’s tax jurisdiction.
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