Finance Act 2022

Registration

55. The Principal Act is amended—

(a) in section 65(3), by—

(i) the designation of the existing provision as paragraph (a) of that subsection, and

(ii) the insertion of the following paragraphs after paragraph (a):

“(b) Where an accountable person, when registering for tax, has furnished particulars specified in regulations referred to in paragraph (a) stating that he or she shall not engage in intra-Community trade, and the person subsequently engages in intra-Community trade, that person shall, within the period of 30 days beginning on the date on which he or she first engages in intra-Community trade, notify the Revenue Commissioners in writing of such an engagement.

(c) Where an accountable person notifies the Revenue Commissioners under paragraph (b) regarding his or her engagement in intra-Community trade, the Revenue Commissioners shall request that person to correct the particulars furnished as specified in regulations referred to in paragraph (a).

(d) In this subsection, ‘intra-Community trade’ means—

(i) the intra-Community supply of goods made by an accountable person and dispatched or transported from the State to a person registered for value-added tax in another Member State, or

(ii) the intra-Community acquisition of goods.”,

(b) in section 91C(2), by the substitution of “subsection (3)(a) of section 65” for “subsection (3) of section 65”,

(c) in section 91E(2), by the substitution of “subsection (3)(a) of section 65” for “subsection (3) of section 65”, and

(d) in section 91K(2), by—

(i) the substitution of “subsection (3)(a) of section 65” for “subsection (3) of section 65”, and

(ii) the substitution of “subsection (3)(a)” for “subsection (3) ”.