Write to VAT team

Hi

I require someone to help write to the VAT accounts team in order to lower our payments on account. We became VAT registered on the 1st of May 2024 and the first payment on account for VAT is due on the 30/08/2024. Our estimations for VAT payments are much lower that the amount we are being asked to pay.

"If your total VAT liability (not including the VAT on imports and moving goods into and out of excise warehouses) is or will be less than 80% of the liability we used to calculate your current payments, you can ask us to reduce them. This applies to either:

any completed year ending after the year that we’ve based current payments on (a backward look at your VAT liability)
any year that’s started but not yet ended (a forward look and you must include an estimate of future returns you’ll submit to make up the whole year)

In both cases, write to the payments on account team.

Tell us the reasons we should reduce your payments. If we’re satisfied, we’ll change your payments to show your reduced VAT liability."

Payments on Account Team
BT VAT
HMRC
BX9 1WR