Value-Added Tax Act, 1972

Regulations.

32.—(1) The Revenue Commissioners shall make such regulations as seem to them to be necessary for the purpose of giving effect to this Act and of enabling them to discharge their functions thereunder and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the regulations may make provision in relation to all or any of the following matters—

(a) the manner in which exemption in respect of certain services may be waived under section 7 and any such waiver may be cancelled, and the adjustments, including a charge of tax, which may be made as a condition of any such cancellation;

(b) the treatment under section 5 (2) of the rendering of a service by a person for the purpose of a business activity in which he engages as the rendering of such service in the course of business;

(c) the particulars required for registration and the manner in which registration may be effected and cancelled;

(d) the manner in which a person may elect to be an accountable person and any such election may be cancelled, the treatment of an accountable person as a person who is not accountable, and the adjustments, including a charge of tax, which may be made as a condition of any such cancellation or treatment;

(e) the manner in which any amount may be apportioned;

(f) the treatment of portion of the consideration payable to certain farmers and fishermen in respect of goods delivered and services rendered by them as tax that may be deducted under section 12 in computing the amount of tax payable;

(g) the treatment of the total of the moneys actually received by a person in respect of the delivery of goods or the rendering of services as the total of the consideration which he is entitled to receive for such delivery or rendering and the adjustments, including a charge of tax, which may be made when a person becomes liable to account for tax on the basis of moneys received or, having been so liable, ceases to be so liable or ceases to be an accountable person;

(h) the keeping by accountable persons of records and the retention of such records and supporting documents;

(i) the form of invoice, credit note, debit note and settlement voucher required to be used for the purposes of this Act, the particulars required to be inserted in such documents and the period within which such documents are required to be issued;

(j) the furnishing of returns and the particulars to be shown thereon;

(k) the nomination by the Revenue Commissioners of officers to perform any acts and discharge any functions authorised by this Act to be performed or discharged by the Revenue Commissioners;

(l) the manner in which tax is to be recovered in cases of default of payment;

(m) the refund of tax in excess of the amount required by law to be borne, or paid to the Revenue Commissioners;

(n) disclosure to the Revenue Commissioners of such information as they may require for the ascertainment of liability to tax;

(o) the remission at the discretion of the Revenue Commissioners of small amounts of tax and interest;

(p) matters consequential on the death of a registered person or his becoming subject to any incapacity;

(q) service of notices;

(r) the acceptance of estimates (whether or not subject to subsequent review) of the amount of tax payable or of any amounts relating to such tax;

(s) the adjustment of the liability of an accountable person who delivers goods or renders services and of the liability of an accountable person to whom goods are delivered or services are rendered where goods are returned, the consideration is reduced, a bad debt is incurred or a discount is allowed;

(t) the valuation of interests in or over immovable goods;

(u) the estimation of tax due for a taxable or other period;

(v) the relief for stock-in-trade held on the specified day;

(w) the relief of a dealer in livestock from accountability for tax on the delivery by him of any such goods and the treatment of such dealer as a person required under section 13 to issue an invoice in respect of the delivery by him of any such goods; the treatment of a sale by auction by an auctioneer (including a livestock mart) of livestock as a delivery of such goods by a person required under section 13 to issue an invoice in respect of the delivery of such goods;

(x) the apportionment between tax which may be deducted under section 12 and tax which may not be deducted under that section, the review, by reference to the circumstances obtaining in any period not exceeding one year, of any such apportionment previously made, the charge or repayment of tax consequent on any such review and the furnishing of particulars by an accountable person to the Revenue Commissioners for the purpose of any such review;

(y) the particulars to be furnished and the manner in which notification is to be given to the Revenue Commissioners by a person who intends to promote a dance, and the manner in which the Revenue Commissioners shall notify the proprietor of any premises in regard to dances proposed to be promoted in such premises.

(2) Regulations under this section may make different provisions in relation to different cases and may in particular provide for differentiation between different classes of persons affected by this Act and for the adoption of different procedures for any such different classes.

(3) Every regulation made under this section shall be laid before Dáil Éireann as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the regulation is passed by Dáil Éireann within the next twenty-one days on which Dáil Éireann has sat after the regulation is laid before it, the regulation shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.