Mr Greville Duncan v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs

Decision date: 26 February 2010

Neutral citation: [2010] UKFTT 95 (TC)

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This case concerned whether a car dealer must include the monetary value of a part-exchange vehicle when calculating VAT on a sale that was paid partly in cash and partly by part-exchange. The tribunal held that at the time of supply the taxable value of consideration includes non-monetary elements such as the part-exchange, and dismissed Mr Duncan’s appeal.

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At the time of supply the taxable value of consideration must reflect all elements forming the consideration, not merely the cash component; where consideration is partly non-monetary, its value for VAT purposes is the monetary equivalent at the time of the supply and output tax must be based on that full consideration.

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The tribunal noted practical points: uncertainty about realisable value or the vendor’s knowledge of an attributed part-exchange value does not negate the legal requirement to value non-monetary consideration at supply, and timing mismatches between accounting periods may produce temporary under-declarations that are, in effect, mechanical/timing issues distinct from the valuation obligation.

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