VAT on Gift Vouchers

In case where company issues Gift Vouchers to its Customers during promotions period as FOC of AED: 1,500 per client.

Gift Voucher purchased from VAT Group Company hence remains out of scope purchases. The consideration less paid to as per advertised value of voucher.

To comply deemed supplies, it is less VAT payable AED: 2000 (FOC value 40000 while it is 1500) per person in last 12 months  threhold. Or it is Taxable ?

 

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SAJITH N18/05/2021 19:41:44

For the Company issuing the gift voucher (presuming no consideration was collected for the same) to the customers, exception can be claimed if the total output VAT payable on all deemed supplies given by the Company for a 12 month period is less than AED 2,000 (taxable value AED 40,000). Here the term person refers to the Company itself and not the recipient of the supply. Also, the term person denotes each Company in a Tax Group and not the Group as a whole since they have not used the wording "Taxable person", in my view. So exception based on this clause may not be available. However it is perhaps possible to cite the reason that no input tax was claimed on the acquisition of these vouchers since the purchase did not constitute a taxable supply, hence onwards free give away should not qualify as a deemed supply (just my view). Furthermore it is mentioned that these vouchers were purchased from same Tax Group Company. So it should be noted that, presuming the customers need to redeem these vouchers for purchases from that VAT group company, taxable point arises at the time of redemption for the VAT Group.

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Nusrat Abbas19/05/2021 11:13:28

Thanks Sajith, How tax will be applied on voucher sales (FOC) if company claimed input VAT already?

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SAJITH N19/05/2021 15:34:58

The value of deemed supply is the cost of acquiring the goods/service which is given FOC

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