- Revenue issued updated guidance on VAT waivers of exemption for property lettings under 10 years.
- From 20 December 2024, Revenue will not collect a waiver cancellation amount when a waiver is cancelled.
- This change follows a High Court judgment in the Killarney Consortium case, which found the waiver cancellation provisions incompatible with EU VAT law.
- The guidance does not clarify if taxpayers who paid a cancellation sum before 20 December 2024 can reclaim it as overpaid tax.
- Waivers allowed landlords to recover VAT on short-term property lettings before 1 July 2008.
- Cancellation of waivers required repayment of excess VAT reclaimed over VAT paid.
- New waivers could not be exercised after 1 July 2008, but existing ones continued to apply.
- The Killarney Consortium case challenged the compatibility of waiver cancellation rules with EU VAT law.
Source: kpmg.com
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