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Buildings and construction ― building materials

Produced by Tolley
  • 16 Jun 2022 12:02

The following Value Added Tax guidance note Produced by Tolley provides comprehensive and up to date tax information covering:

  • Buildings and construction ― building materials
  • What are building materials?
  • When are goods ‘ordinarily incorporated’ for these purposes?
  • Prefabricated furniture
  • Electrical or gas appliances
  • Carpets and carpeting materials
  • What is the VAT liability of building materials?
  • When will building materials be standard-rated?
  • When will building materials be reduced-rated?
  • When will building materials be zero-rated?
    • More...

Buildings and construction ― building materials

This guidance note describes:

  1. •

    the VAT treatment of supplies of building materials

  2. •

    when input tax on certain goods incorporated into buildings is ‘blocked’ and cannot be recovered

For an overview of the liability of supplies relating to construction, conversion and renovation more broadly, see the Overview ― construction, conversion and renovation guidance note.

For input tax generally, see the Input tax ― overview guidance note.

For in-depth discussion of the legislation and case law in relation to building materials, see De Voil Indirect Tax Service V4.242, and for the input tax block, see De Voil Indirect Tax Service V3.444.

What are building materials?

The following bullet points set out the conditions that goods have to meet in order to be classed as ‘building materials’ for VAT purposes. Goods will not be building materials unless they meet all of the conditions:

  1. •

    the goods must be ‘ordinarily incorporated’ into the kind of building being constructed, converted, renovated, etc

  2. •

    the goods must not be finished or prefabricated furniture or materials that will be used to produce fitted furniture (except kitchen furniture)

  3. •

    the goods must not be electrical or gas appliances (with certain exceptions)

  4. •

    the goods must not be carpets or carpeting materials

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