FTT Rules Maintenance Services to Lessors Are Standard-Rated, Not Exempt, for VAT Purposes

The FTT ruled that maintenance services for blocks of flats were supplied to the lessors, not the lessees.
The maintenance services were not considered part of a single exempt supply of land or ancillary to it for VAT purposes.
The maintenance services are therefore a separate, standard-rated supply for VAT.
The appeal was stayed pending the Upper Tribunal’s decision in a related case concerning EU law principles.

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