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UK FTT (Tax): Serviced apartments akin to hotel accommodation; VAT land exemption disapplied; 28-day valuation rule applied; carelessness penalty upheld (Realreed Ltd v HMRC)

Published on: 09 January 2024

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Realreed Ltd v HMRC [2023] UKFTT 1042 (TC)

Realreed Ltd (Realreed) owned a building called Chelsea Cloisters. The site comprised 656 self-contained flats. The dispute centred on the VAT position of 235 of those units that were not let on long leases. Under VATA 1994, s 31, a supply of goods or services is exempt where it falls within a description listed in Schedule 9. VATA 1994, Sch 9, Group 1, Item 1 (Land) covers ‘the grant of any interest in or right over land or of any licence to occupy land, or, in relation to land in Scotland, any personal right to call for or be granted any such interest or right’, subject to specified carve-outs. The carve-out at Item 1(d) relates to ‘the provision in an hotel, inn, boarding house or similar establishment of sleeping accommodation or of accommodation in rooms which are provided in conjunction with sleeping accommodation or for the purpose of a supply of catering.’ Note 9 to Item 1 provides that a ‘similar establishment’ includes ‘premises in which there is provided furnished sleeping accommodation, whether with or without the provision of board or facilities for the preparation of food, which are’...

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