Uber Eats Driver and VAT

Hi, I’m currently trying to speak to an actual human at uber eats UK but it seems to be impossible. My issue is, if I do deliveries for Uber Eats, should I be earning VAT on top of my earnings? I am VAT registered under a Ltd Company and the invoice given to me of my earnings for each week has £0 in the VAT column. So does this mean that I will then have to pay VAT out of my earnings, meaning I’m instantly losing 20% from each delivery? Any help would be appreciated

Hi,
You would need to contact the company who you are providing the service for.
If you are providing a delivery service then this would normally be a Vatable supply at 20% which you would need to account for and pay over to HMRC and so we would recommend contacting the company to confirm the position.
Thank you.

Have you told Uber that you are VAT registered and given Uber your VAT number? If you haven't, then Uber will not know that you are VAT registered so they will pay to you your fee for deliveries, that fee is your income, that income is then subject to VAT which you declare to HMRC on your VAT return. But yes, you will have to pay 20% VAT out of the fee you receive from Uber. For example you receive £100 from Uber, you pay £16.66 of that as VAT to HMRC and keep £83.34 If Uber are aware that you are VAT registered, they will issue an invoice to you with the VAT showing and it will be 20% VAT on top of your delivery fee, for example £100 + £20 VAT fee from Uber, so you would be better off. If you have told Uber you are VAT registered and they are still issuing invoices to you without VAT, then that is an issue only you and Uber can resolve, nothing to do with HMRC.