EU VAT on EV charging

Accounting
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Hi all,

I’m preparing my first VAT return. I think I’ve understood it so far. However, I have a couple of transactions for charging a company EV in the EU, both include EU VAT at 21%. In both cases the car was in the EU when charged. Do I just mark these as 0% VAT, out of scope for UK VAT? Or is there a better way to deal with them that means I can claim the VAT back (it’s not much, but if I learn how to do something now it prove valuable in the future).

Cheers :slight_smile:

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On your UK vat return you can only reclaim UK vat. I don’t think there’s any way to reclaim overseas VAT that you have been charged on purchases made (and used) within that country, unless you’re also registered for that country’s vat with their own authorities.

So yes, in QuickFile you’d just record the full cost (including the foreign VAT) in the net column of the QuickFile purchase and set the (UK) vat rate to 0%.

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Hi @ian_roberts, that’s a very helpful answer, thanks :slight_smile:

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