VAT: When you have overpaid your welcome - an analysis by Max Schofield
3rd June 2019
Max Schofield analyses the recent Court of Appeal decision in National Car Parks Ltd v HMRC [2019] concerning parking ticket overpayments and consideration for VAT purposes.
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