Valentina

Thank you but this is a scam. I have sent a recorded letter to the new company address and noone is there... How is it possible that there are 17 companies registered to that address and noone is there.... We have not received any reply from the new director nor any payment and we have no other way to contact him. I won't be surprised if the new director doesn't even exist and it's a stolen name. I will persue this and report the company to companies house

Thank you very much.i will send a letter to the new registered address. The old director has now opened a new company in London...and we found out that he owns money to other people..there some dodgy stuff going on... definitely he has not rectified his books either....

Thank you all. We have started the investigation with HMRC end of feb and beginning of march...as also the invoices we received where numbered 01/02/03/04 so it seems that from July to october( last invoice received and end of job) we were the only customer....the subcontractor confirmed that they have not applied the vat to our contractor so we don't really understand....we had to go to court as advised by HMRC ..as they couldn't do much for us....we suggested payment in installments, gave him a time frame....after all this we went to court... Now the new director is not replying to our emails....so I am worried that the money are lost...can i instruct ccj to the new director in case he doesn't pay by 30 April ?

Our contractor said that the subcontractor applied the vat to him and sued the subcontractors. We have the proof that the subcontractor didn't charge the vat...therefore the vat paid by us is definitely the margin for the contractor. Basically is up to no good...and now after taking him to court he found a way to get out of it....

My partner and I are building our own house. Only after sorting out documents for the vat refund for new build I have realised that the building services should be zero rate. At this point we have already paid 3.6k vat to the building company which subcontracted our build to another building company. We inform our contractor about this error in Jan and he said he would sorted. After many reminders and after receiving replies from the contractor such as"you are at the bottom of my list" and after offering repayment in installments we decided to start a small court claim toward the company and the director. The company (based in Kent) never issue a credit not with vat and a new invoice with zero rate as requested so he never fixed its books. Once the court claim was sent the director admitted the amount he owed to us and promised to repay us in 4 installments. We accepted. He made his first payment on 31st at 6pm on his very last day available after sending various email threatening to instruct ccj. Two days ago the director informed us that the company was sold to this new director (based in Bury) and we have been instructed to liaise with the new director only. We emailed the new director and didn't received any reply. I would like to know if we still claim our money even though the company has been sold? What If the new director doesn't reply? We only have a Gmail account email ...also this new director has been appointed to other 7 companies in the last 2 months...and it seems they are all companies on the verge of dissolving.... Please advise if we still have a change to recover our money. The company is scamming the system and HMRC.... Satisfied custo

Hello can I seek another advise from all of you guys? We managed to recover more than 5k from one contractor ..however the brick work contractor after two month is acting very hostilely ... First he said he was going to sort it..then he bought time then now after another reminder became hostile... So I went through the service contract signed by contractor and my partner ... And in the payment terms shows only amount without vat.... And doesn't mention anything about vat charges ...it only says that it is responsibilty of the contractor to pay income and social security taxes ..no mention of vat...do you think I can say to the contractors that based in the contract he is in breach of contract as he applied taxes when they were not even mentioned in the contract? I don't know I'm trying to sort this as he owes us another 3k plus. ...thank you

Hello can I seek another advise from all of you guys? We managed to recover more than 5k from one contractor ..however the brick work contractor after two month is acting very hostilely ... First he said he was going to sort it..then he bought time then now after another reminder became hostile... So I went through the service contract signed by contractor and my partner ... And in the payment terms shows only amount without vat.... And doesn't mention anything about vat charges ...it only says that it is responsibilty of the contractor to pay income and social security taxes ..no mention of vat...do you think I can say to the contractors that based in the contract he is in breach of contract as he applied taxes when they were not even mentioned in the contract? I don't know I'm trying to sort this as he owes us another 3k plus. ...thank you

Temp sorry to bother again ...the contractor for pipe rediversion and footing had invoiced material and labour as a job ...didn't split material and labour ..should have he split zero rate for service/labour and 20% material (recoverable via HMRC)? Thanks again

Dear temp can you send me the link where I can find the article 3.3.4 of vat? I'm planning to send the contractors the articles as reference....

Hi Kelvin we sourced the material ourselves so my problem is only on labour unfortunately...

Thank you so so much everyone to be so helpful and clarify my doubt..now good luck to me and to all the people that are in the same boat as us .I'm gutted...we are taking about 9k ..I can't believe this....

Hello, I have found this forum today and I hope someone can give me some good news. My partner and I are building our house where we would be living once finished. We have bought a land with planning permission and we are getting close to completion so i have started to put all the paper together for the VAT claim. Today I read that construction services and ground works if related to the build should be zero rated, however our contractors have billed us 20% standard rate and we could potentially be 9,000 gbp out of pocket. Below the services we have paid: 1) ground works for a sewage pipe redirection. Basically under the land there was a sewage pipe coming from a near development. One of the main condition of the planning application was that before starting to work on the land, we would redirect the sewage pipe to the adjacent bridle path. We submitted drawing to Southern Water, got the approval and redirected the pipe. The contractor charged us 20% vat, was the bill supposed to be "zero rated"? If so, the invoice is dated February 2022, can we do anything to recover this vat? Is the contractor liable for this and should correct this error provided it is an error? 2) Footing as per drawing. The same contractor charged us 20% standard rate for the service and the material (ie. concrete and Grab lorry to remove soil). Was it supposed to be "zero rated"? If so the invoices are dated March/April/May 2022, do you think we could recover the vat? 3) Construction service. My Partner bought all the building material himself, and we will claim back the VAT via HMRC. The contractor who build the house (brick work) charged us vat 20%. I read on the HMRC that building services should be zero rated, can you please just give me the confirmation? The builders finished their job in October so i hope i can still ask them to correct their invoices and refund us the VAT paid. I am gutted that i have started to look at all documentation only now, but i would have expect that the contractors that do this for living know better then us. We are still at least 4 months from completion so my vat claim would be after that, also can you please confirm that i can claim for the vat paid in different years? ie 2022 and 2023? So sorry for writing such a long message. I hope someone can help us to clarify and hopefully we can recover some money. thank you very much. Valentina