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As a local authority our finance team has an entire manual on when we should and should not charge VAT and at what rate, needed for compliance with hmrc rules. VAT is not a useful way to extract money from public authorities who are funded by any form of tax raising, vat on your community charge etc would not be popular. I guess the ea believe voluntary advise is not a statutory function and or they are will distort the market for such advise if they don't charge vat (2 of the rules we have to use). Seems mad as you only go to the EA when you want to check for the definitive answer from the regulator. Some smart accountant can probably argue the toss with the EA as to which part of a paid consultation is advise freely available in the market and which is only available from the regulator, one would be VAT rated the other not. Given the chance all regulator would be happier giving timely advise than picking up issues later. Regards Martin Wright Senior Regulatory Services Officer Regulatory Services Cheshire West and Chester Council -----Original Message----- From: Contaminated Land Management Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter Fleming Sent: 09 May 2018 17:59 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Commercial charges Environmental Information Regulations 2014 Surely the point about VAT is it is up to HMRC to decide whether you charge VAT on any goods or services. I would assume that whatever applies to the EA applies to local authorities. Regards Peter Fleming 07958 205920 Skype: petermfleming ************************************************************************ Disclaimer: If you are not the intended recipient of this email (and any attachment), please inform the sender by return email and destroy all copies. Unauthorised access, use, disclosure, storage or copying is not permitted. The views expressed by the author do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of Cheshire West and Chester Borough Council. The Council cannot guarantee that this message or any attachment is virus free or has not been intercepted and amended. You should perform your own virus checks. Cheshire West and Chester Borough Council may monitor emails and as a public sector organisation; the Council may disclose this email (or any response to it) under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Contracts cannot be concluded with the Council nor service effected by email, unless otherwise expressly agreed. The contents of this e-mail may be subject to privilege. ************************************************************************