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Liability ― insurance ― overview

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Value Added Tax
Guidance

Liability ― insurance ― overview

Produced by a Tolley Value Added Tax expert
Value Added Tax
Guidance
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A supply of insurance is a supply of services and is exempt from VAT. The VAT exemption for insurance also applies to the services of an insurance agent or an insurance broker acting in an intermediary capacity in relation to insurance.

This guidance note provides an overview of the:

  1. •

    scope of the VAT exemption for insurance

  2. •

    entitlement of insurers, insurance agents, insurance brokers and insurance policy holders to recover VAT on costs

  3. •

    VAT treatment of insurance payments received by policy holders

In-depth commentary on the insurance exemption can be found in De Voil Indirect Tax Service V4.121 to V4.124.

Overview of the scope of the VAT exemption for insurance

The VAT legislation provides for exemption to apply to:

  1. •

    insurance transactions and reinsurance transactions

  2. •

    the services of an insurance agent or an insurance broker acting in an intermediary capacity in relation to a contract of insurance or reinsurance regardless of whether the contract is concluded

VATA 1994, Sch 9, Pt II, Group 2

Whether the VAT exemption for

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