Finance Act, 1999

Amendment of section 10A (margin scheme goods) of Principal Act.

125.—Section 10A (inserted by the Act of 1995) of the Principal Act is hereby amended in subsection (1)—

(a) by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “margin scheme goods”:

“‘margin scheme goods’ means any works of art, collectors' items, antiques or second-hand goods supplied within the Community to a taxable dealer—

(a) by a person, other than a person referred to in paragraph (c), who was not entitled to deduct, under section 12, any tax in respect of that person's purchase, intra-Community acquisition or importation of those goods:

Provided that person is not a taxable person who acquired those goods from—

(i) a taxable dealer who applied the margin scheme to the supply of those goods to that taxable person, or

(ii) an auctioneer within the meaning of section 10B who applied the auction scheme within the meaning of section 10B to the supply of those goods to that taxable person,

or

(b) by a person in another Member State who was not entitled to deduct, under the provisions implementing Article 17 of Council Directive No. 77/388/EEC of 17 May 1977, in that Member State, any value-added tax referred to in that Directive in respect of that person's purchase, intra-Community acquisition or importation of those goods, or

(c) by another taxable dealer who has applied the margin scheme to the supply of those goods or applied the provisions implementing Article 26a (inserted by Council Directive No. 94/5/EC of 14 February 1994) of Council Directive No. 77/388/EEC of 17 May 1977, in another Member State to the supply of those goods,

and also includes goods acquired by a taxable dealer as a result of a disposal of goods by a person to such taxable dealer where that disposal was deemed not to be a supply of goods in accordance with section 3(5)(c).”,

and

(b) in the definition of “second-hand goods” by the insertion after “means of transport,” of “agricultural machinery (within the meaning of section 12C),”.