VAT Receipt

[mattc711]

Hi 

I'm trying to obtain a VAT receipt for recent purcahses, the buyer has indicated i need to contact ebay. Your help articles suggest viewing the order details and print out but it doesn't show the invoice. 

[arkwebus]

There will be a cost for time and so on to contact the seller that is why I queried whether it is worth it.

The seller is 100% responsible for issuing a Tax Invoice

Draw their attention to Vat Regulations 1995 Regulation 13

13(1)  Save as otherwise provided in these Regulations, where a registered person (P)–

(a)makes a taxable supply in the United Kingdom to a taxable person, or

P must, unless paragraph (1ZA) applies, provide such persons as are mentioned above with a VAT invoice.

So if the seller is a taxable person and making a taxable supply to another taxable person he must issue a tax invoice.  There is no way to do it through eBay as far as I know so he will have to send it by post or - no doubt - as an e-mail attachment.   The essential thing is that the seller is a taxable person which - in effect - means that he is [or should be] registered for VAT in the UK

@mattc711