VAT and Customs Duty in International Trade

Course review:

This course is an introduction to both the VAT and customs duty implications of international trade in goods and services. This course gives practical and clear guidance through the maze of VAT and duty procedures and is an ideal foundation for the more detailed VAT and EU Trade in Goods course.

Course Content

Introduction

• Overview of the systems for
• The movement of goods between member states of the EU and non-EU countries
• Supplies and receipt of services between the member states and countries outside the EU

Imports of Goods from Outside the EU

• Customs duty and import VAT implications and procedures
• How to find the correct rate of duty to pay
• How to value goods correctly
• VAT certificates
• VAT return completion
• Avoiding or deferring import VAT and customs duty e.g.

  - Duty deferment

  - Customs warehousing

  - Other suspension regimes

• Exports - requirements and valid evidence to zero rate

Intra-EU Movements of Goods

• Accounting for acquisition VAT
• Tax values, tax points, currency conversion
• VAT return entries
• Dispatches
• Reporting requirements
• Completing the VAT return correctly
• Conditions required for zero-rating
• Danger areas for possible registration in other member states

EU Trade Reporting

• An introduction to VAT return, European sales listing and Intrastat requirements

Recovering Foreign VAT

• Mutual recovery - the key features and conditions

Introduction to International Services

• Supplies-recognising when to charge VAT to an overseas customer and the rules for not charging VAT
• Receipts-accounting procedures for certain types of service - the 'reverse charge'
• A brief overview of the main changes in 2010