From: Nogood Boyo 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: VAT on services done in other countries of the EU
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:30:34 +0100

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 at 21:55:06 in uk.finance Chris Green wrote:
>Nogood Boyo  wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 at 10:42:32 in uk.finance  wrote:
>> >The HMCE web site is completely useless, I can find nothing at all
>> >relating to buying *services* from other countries in the EC.
>>
>>
>>         Notice 700 The VAT Guide
>>         http://ww2.hmce.gov.uk/forms/notices/700-a5.htm#P417_32499
[...]
>>         Notice 741  Place of supply of services
>>         http://ww2.hmce.gov.uk/forms/notices/741.htm
[...]
>>         Notice 744D  International services: zero-rating
>>         http://ww2.hmce.gov.uk/forms/notices/744d.htm
[...]
>>
>OK, but it makes no mention at all of EC or non-EC suppliers, surely
>there must be *some* difference between EC and non-EC suppliers of
>services.

If the C&E Notices don't distinguish, I think you can take it that there 
is no distinction.  When they say UK, they mean UK.  When they say 
outside UK, they mean EC and non-EC.

>  What I searched for on the HMCE web site was "EC Services"
>and it turned up nothing of any use.
>
Ah...  search engine (and new C&E site) indeed useless...

Use http://ww2.hmce.gov.uk/ (while it lasts) rather than the new site 
http://www.hmce.gov.uk.

Start with the VAT Guide contents and follow your nose from there.

-- 
Nogood Boyo