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Missing invoice - claim anyway?
Roz replied to Roz's topic in Self Build VAT, Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL), S106 & Tax
I think i am going to leave it out, I tried calling the company again and they insist they don’t keep old invoices, and the quotation actually doesn’t look as much like an invoice as i remembered. It’s frustrating as it’s one of our largest VAT amounts, and I was pretty good at making sure I had all my invoices on email so it’s a shame one of the larger ones is one I made a mistake on, but it is what it is! -
DIY Vat Reclaim - Timeline
Roz replied to richo106's topic in Self Build VAT, Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL), S106 & Tax
Was there a theme to the invoices they asked to see? E.g. most expensive -
Missing invoice - claim anyway?
Roz replied to Roz's topic in Self Build VAT, Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL), S106 & Tax
Thanks James. I’ve got an invoice-looking quote so guess I could try to send that if HMRC decide that’s one of the ones they want to look at! (I’m under the impression that they’ve changed it a bit so they don’t make you send every single invoice but I could be wrong) -
Am I right in thinking that HMRC are only asking for a handful of invoices now? I can’t find the invoice for our supply only ASHP which is pretty annoying as the VAT is like £500, and the company say that they’ve been taken over by another company so have a new computer system and apparently can’t find the invoice without the ticket number (?), so I’m stuck with it. Is it worth just putting it on the spreadsheet anyway and hoping that HMRC don’t ask for that invoice? It’s up there near the top of our VAT amounts we are reclaiming. Anyone any experience with what happens if they ask for the single item we don’t have an invoice for?
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Thanks Bonner. I thought workshops were specifically ruled out? Now I don’t know whether to say ‘yes’ when they ask if it includes any other buildings or just say no but put all the materials on the list. What do you think? I could say ‘yes’ to are there any other rooms (they ask if there’s anything other than kitchen bathroom and bedrooms). Although I did just watch that video from Andrew Jones and he specifies no to garden rooms so perhaps should just leave it out. I’m going around in circles haha
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Thanks for the thoughts on this Temp - I’m not VAT registered as a business so can’t claim that way. And I think it’s too late to update our plans as we’ve completed already and I’m looking at doing the reclaim now 😅 . Wish I hadn’t called it a ‘workshop’, it’s just what we’d been saying to each other as a place we would work! I will give that thread a read thank you
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Hey sorry for the delay I don’t seem to get emails. Not sure if this is still helpful but we did go ahead and do it ourselves with tarmac. We cut the edge clean with a large disc cutter, and then scraped out and cleaned out underneath, compacted with a plate compactor. We hired a ride on rotary compactor which has the automatic spraying of water onto it so we didn’t have to worry about it getting dirty, and had about 6 people helping to rake out the tarmac along the 80 metres. We kept the lorry there until we were done to keep the tarmac warmer, paid them for 2 or 3 hours waiting. It would have been good if we’d organised a way to level it as we were doing it by eye and there are a few dips here and there (you can’t really fill the dips once they are cooled a bit, as it starts to break up, so a more efficient levelling system would have been good - we didn’t organise a timber edge or a timber levelling stick). However, over a year later and it’s still good and not broken up (we were told by one person who quoted to do the repair that it wouldn’t last more than a year, so that was our benchmark for success). The bit we have repaired is in much better condition than the rest of the lane, so it feels generally like it went well. Maybe we wouldn’t have been pleased if we’d paid a professional, but we didn’t! Clean up of tools was a drag, so would consider the tools as part of the cost of the job so you don’t feel you have to salvage everything. We were hoping the guy in the tarmac lorry would be able to direct the tarmac into our trench but he couldnt, so we did have to barrow it. With the number of people we had, that wasn’t so bad. A few people barrowing and the rest raking or compacting! We just did one tarmac type, not two layers with a fine layer on top. Our lane in general wasn’t in good enough condition to warrant that. I can’t remember all the reasons we didn’t go for concrete - but one main one was having to prevent access for longer.
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Has anyone got any experience / knowledge on whether you can include a garden office in your VAT reclaim? It was on our planning permission for the main house. It’s an insulated garden room which we perhaps stupidly called a workshop on our planning permission, but it was always going to be our home office with desks etc. Does anyone know if you can include these? I used to think not but there’s a section online where it asks if you want to include any other buildings. To complicate matters one end of it is a shed, which I don’t think you can claim for. Lastly what about changes that you have made during the build that you didn’t notify the council about? E.g. We originally planned for an oil tank but put in an ASHP instead - will they not allow us to claim the VAT for the ASHP as it’s not on our plans?
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Hopefully I can explain this well enough! For a rak wall hung toilet Inside the ceramic area you insert the flush pipe into, there is maybe a 5cm space, then a ridge going all the way around, then a space with 3 holes where the water flows into the bowl from the pipe. Does the pipe get cut beyond the ridge, which seems to be in the middle of the whole cavity of the flush pipe area? Or do you cut it at the ridge, etc. We are getting leaking and I think I might have cut it too long so it’s too close to the holes and maybe creating a backwash. The rubber seal also pushes back on the flush pipe instead of staying in place so that might also be the problem if it’s not seating well enough inside the ceramic. Thanks!
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Can I turn the water off from my tank cupboard
Roz replied to Roz's topic in Boilers & Hot Water Tanks
yes the tank is just for hot water, I just seem to remember the guys asking us to run the main cold water up to the tank cupboard before running it anywhere else. And from there I thought we asked them to put some isolators on so we could turn the water off here instead of going outside, but I can’t see which it would be 😅 i should really write things like this down!! -
Is it possible to turn the water to my bathroom off from this tank cupboard? It’s been so long that I can’t remember 😂 . We ran the main water feed up to the tank and then the cold and hot came back from the tank cupboard to the bathroom and the kitchen. I think! IMG_7351.MOV