Need add VAT onto Invoice if buyer import direct from Manufacturer oversea?

Dear Sir / Madam, Hope you could help, We have a customer importing our products direct from manufacturer oversea and we will invoice the customer for the products they imported in. Since the customer do the importing direct so they will be responsible for all Tax and VAT etc when Custom, do we need to add on the VAT when invoicing them? Both ourselves and the customer are UK based VAT registered companies.

Hi DHMY685,
If you are making a UK supply of goods to another UK company and the other company are the importer of record then this company will own the goods when they come in to the UK.
Hence, you will not be making a supply of goods in the UK to this company and so the supply will be Outside The Scope of VAT.
Thank you.

 

Thank you for very much for your reply. May I ask do I need to input any particular VAT code ( Zero VAT or VAT Exempt ) when issuing Invoice to Customer please?

Hi,

As you are not making a taxable supply in the UK then you would not need to raise a VAT invoice as the supply would be outside the scope of VAT. You can see guidance here:

VAT invoices

Thank you.