Please can you tell me if it is correct for a garage to offer a service then charge VAT for the service?

Please can you tell me if it is correct for a garage to offer a service then charge VAT for the service if you pay with your switch card, or no VAT if you pay cash. I am very unhappy about not being told before hand that this is the case as I could have saved 拢10.50 if I had known, by getting cash from the bank on the way to the garage to pay for the fitting of my tires.|||The garage has by law to put VAT on all its services. If they are saying there is no VAT if you pay cash then that is illegal ( but it des go on a lot).|||The garage is on a fiddle. If this garage is VAT registered, it should be charging VAT on every transaction - be it cash or not. Obviously if you pay by credit card or cheque the details have to be logged in their annual accounts, so they charge you the VAT. If, however, you offer to pay cash it goes in the owner's back pocket and nothing goes through the books, so you save the VAT and they get cash in hand which they do not disclose to the tax office. FIDDLE-- FRAUD - DECEPTION - call it what you will, it's what they are keeping from the Tax Inspector.|||They should be charging VAT for everything, regardless of the payment method. This is the law.





What the garage meant by saying they wouldn't charge you VAT for cash is that they would not put the works done through tehir books and instead just pocket the money. This is illegal and they shouldn't have offered this.





They are clearly dishonest - if I were you I would avoid using them again!!|||I am in total agreement with new Nana|||In these tough financial times we all need to pull together and support our local fraudsters. Your good deed will not go unoticed by karma ... or i've been watching too much My Name Is Earl. Yeah they were doing it off the books.|||report them on 0800 595000.


http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPorta鈥?/a>|||The garage are defrauding the VAT man!