vat question on imports

My husband imported doors from the north to caught a long story short we thought we were derigrted for vat it turned out we were not it was done that day by my accountant.he told me to get the company to do a credit note and reissue a new invoice with pat amount on it which i have asked them to do on a lot of occasions they told me today that it could not be done as all their accounts are gone in so they won't do it this has being going on since November.my account has now informed me revune are looking into it.we have no issue in paying the gas it is 1000 euro but he has told me not to approach the revune .what is the best way to reslove this issue any advice on what to do my husband is sick with worry over this

dymo said:

My husband imported doors from the north to caught a long story short we thought we were derigrted for vat it turned out we were not it was done that day by my accountant.he told me to get the company to do a credit note and reissue a new invoice with pat amount on it which i have asked them to do on a lot of occasions they told me today that it could not be done as all their accounts are gone in so they won't do it this has being going on since November.my account has now informed me revune are looking into it.we have no issue in paying the gas it is 1000 euro but he has told me not to approach the revune .what is the best way to reslove this issue any advice on what to do my husband is sick with worry over this

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It's a bit unclear from your post what the problem is - when these doors were imported was your husband VAT registered or not?

Did the N.I. supplier invoice your husband for VAT or did they Zero rate the invoice?

At the end of the day this shouldn't be an issue for Irish Revenue - if you were VAT registered and not charged VAT on them, then you simply account for the VAT on both sides of your VAT return.

If you were not VAT registered and they didn't charge you VAT when they should have, it was UK VAT they didn't charge you.

Unless of course he didn't charge VAT on the sale of the doors - is that what the problem is?

Sorry for not getting back sooner.There was a mix up the customer was in england and she ended up paying for the good by credit card to the company they then came back to us and said that we owed an extra €800 as the vat was to be payed and as the customer payed for the good.We already thought that everything was inclued as we told them we were deregistered for vat.They then came back and said our vat number was live at the time of we placing the order.We had informed our accountent last April to deregister us so we olny found out that he had never done this.He is now saying that it is not his probmem that we should have spoted it.Yes we should but it was after the invoice comming that i did spot it.

I have no problem paying the vat as we do owe it.But i also have not any vat back on anything as we are derigstered as advised by our accountent.But i am worried as the revune are looking in to it.

I do think there is fault my us the company and my accountent.I sopke to somelast nite and he is saying if they ask qusitions just be honest with what happned as at the end of the day the customer payed and they should have been charged the vat by the company.I can get rescipts form her showing her payment and recipts for the company that delivered to england and i can also show that i have not claimed any vat back since we thought we were dereisgtered.

Hope this makes sence