Export VAT dispute

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I'm not from UK but this should be valid in general.

First of all you have not to pay the VAT 2 times...the correct behaviour should be, as a final customer (since you are not vat registered), you receive the invoice with the uk vat and you pay it to the seller, but it should be the seller that should pay the vat in Malta, acting as an importer. Then, the seller, and not you, can recover the import vat (paid in Malta).

But things were made wrong, so the seller should:

1. Issue a credit note to you for the amount of the wrongly invoiced VAT
2. Give back the money to you equal to the amount of the VAT
3. Declare the credit note on his UK VAT return to recover it from tis Country

No idea about a claim, may be not worth for that amount (£500).

An additional note: if in the customs bill it's you that appear as the importer (and more important in the invoice from the carrier that acted as the intermediary), the seller can't recover the vat. Documents were compiled wrongly. So it's like you bought something in uk and exported it to Malta. I think you can do nothing, sorry.

Sorry for what happened.

Edited June 8, 2023 by aaa577aaa