Billing and UK VAT
VAT invoices, the reverse charge, invoices in other currencies, and customers outside the UK.
With a UK country and a VAT number in Business, Profile, your invoices are VAT invoices. Billing will not issue one until it has what HMRC asks for: your name, address and VAT number, the customer's name and address, each line's price before VAT and its VAT rate, the VAT total and the total to pay.
- Invoicing in euros or dollars? Add the exchange rate on the invoice. The VAT total is shown in pounds too, at that rate.
- Domestic reverse charge (construction, specified goods): use the *Domestic reverse charge* rate. The VAT is shown but not charged, with the note *Reverse charge: customer to account for the VAT to HMRC*. The customer's VAT number is needed.
- Business customers outside the UK: use *Outside the scope of UK VAT*.
VAT can be rounded once per rate on the invoice or on every line (Billing, Settings). HMRC allows either if you keep to one.
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