24 May 2017 
Amanda Darley, Head of Operations and Engagement
Hot on the heels of forcing universities to identify affected personal services companies and calculate their tax and NI liabilities (as well as the additional NI burden itself), HMRC is proposing that customers (including universities) receiving construction services should calculate and pay reverse charge VAT on those services (when received from UK suppliers) in order to prevent fraud in the UK construction industry.
How easily would your university be able to do this? What is the value of the supplies this proposal could apply to? BUFDG will be responding to HMRC's consultation on these proposals, and we need information from you in order to inform that response. We would be grateful if you could respond to our survey asking about the value of your capital programme, how you calculate reverse charge VAT at present, and how you might do so in future on these supplies from UK suppliers. Please respond to the survey by the end of Friday 26th May. If you have any additional comments on the consultation, please contact Amanda.
