This case concerns Sofology Limited and DFS Furniture Company Limited (DFS) and the recovery of VAT incurred on PPC advertising services from Google. Each appellant is a specialist sofa retailer. In addition to the supplies of sofas, the appellants also make supplies of intermediary services in relation to sofa insurance which is sold along with the sofas. The supplies of sofas are taxable, and the supply of insurance intermediary services is exempt from VAT, consequently each appellant is partly exempt for VAT purposes.
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