I have bought some online courses on Udemy, to use for my business (UK limited company, VAT registered). When buying the course I was not given any option to enter crucial details, especially the VAT number.
Payed with the company’s debit card.
Now the only thing I can receive is a receipt, in Euro, for my company name, but it does have Irish VAT on it (and I payed the total gross amount)
How can I account for it (and I do have to, as the corresponding amount in GBP disappeared from my business account) ?
I know there were similar topics, (AdWords etc.) but I could not understand if I should try to reclaim VAT from Ireland, or could somehow account for the total, I am screwed until I get a proper reverse charge invoice (which Udeamy seems not willing to provide)
I don’t believe they’ll be reverse charging the VAT if you haven’t supplied your UK VAT number, this would be necessary in order for your supplier to issue a reverse charge invoice. If they haven’t reverse charged the VAT then I presume you’ll be paying the Irish rate of VAT on that purchase.
If you can get a VAT invoice then we can provide some further guidance on how this can be entered into QuickFile.
the receipt looks like this. There is literally no place I can provide any extra information, like UK VAT number, thus no surprise they did not apply reverse charge. Tried to contact them and have it corrected (as expected - no response )
Any advice?
BTW. I have added this via receipt hub, manually added conversion rate to match the one applied by the bank - and when I try to tag the corresponding payment as “payment to supplier” the systems says “na matching purchase invoices”.
Looks like they’ve applied 23% VAT (Irish Rate). I think the best course of action would be to request the invoice be reverse charged, as I don’t believe you can reclaim the Irish VAT back via your UK VAT return. Otherwise it may be just worth paying the EUR 6.17 VAT.
I should add I’m not an accountant so it’s worth also getting a professional opinion.
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