CrownServant2024
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VAT on goods exported from the UK Notice 703
Hello, I am due to move overseas as a Crown Servant on an official deployment with HM Government (so I will not be resident in the UK). If I purchase some goods from a vendor / supplier from their store in the UK and subsequently get an agent to take these goods outside of the UK (Indirect export section 2.9), do I qualify for zero-rating of VAT or does zero-rating only apply for direct exports? I wondered how section 2.9 intersects with section 7.12 where "you can zero rate the supply of goods ordered by ... British diplomats abroad that are delivered to the FCDO". Thank you.