S.I. No. 339/2008 - Taxes (Electronic Transmission of Vat Eservices Returns and Vies Statements) (Specified Provisions and Appointed Day) Order 2008

1. This Order may be cited as the Taxes (Electronic Transmission of VAT eServices Returns and VIES Statements) (Specified Provisions and Appointed Day) Order 2008.

2. Each of the provisions set out in the Schedule to this Order is specified for the purposes of Chapter 6 of Part 38 of the

Taxes Consolidation Act 1997

.

3. The 25th day of August 2008 is appointed in relation to returns and statements to be made under the provisions specified in accordance with Article 2 of this Order.

SCHEDULE

Section 5A(6) of the

Value-Added Tax Act 1972

(No. 22 of 1972).

Subsections (1), (2), (3) and (4) of section 19A of the

Value-Added Tax Act 1972

.

Paragraph (2) of Regulation 14 of the Value-Added Tax Regulations 2006 (

S.I. No. 548 of 2006

).

GIVEN this 21 day of August 2008

MICHAEL O’GRADY

Revenue Commissioner

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation)

This Order applies the legislation governing the electronic filing of tax information to VAT eServices Returns and Statements of intra-Community Supplies (VIES Statements).

The order also appoints a day, namely the 25th of August 2008, in relation to such returns and statements which ensures that the electronic filing legislation will apply to VAT eServices Returns and VIES Statements which are due to be made on or after 26th of August 2008.

Chapter 6 of Part 38 of the

Taxes Consolidation Act 1997

provides the legislative framework whereby tax related information required to be provided to the Revenue Commissioners may be supplied electronically. The legislation only applies to information where the provision under which the information is supplied is specified in an order made by the Revenue Commissioners. Where a provision is so specified the legislation only applies to information that is required to be supplied under that provision after the day appointed in the Order in relation to the provision concerned. The reason for this procedure is to allow the Revenue Commissioners to manage the roll-out of the system for receiving tax related information electronically.

S.I. No. 339 of 2008

TAXES (ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION OF VAT eSERVICES RETURNS AND VIES STATEMENTS) (SPECIFIED PROVISIONS AND APPOINTED DAY) ORDER 2008

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

26

th August

, 2008.

The Revenue Commissioners, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 917E (inserted by

section 209

of the

Finance Act 1999

(No. 2 of 1999)) of the

Taxes Consolidation Act 1997

(No. 39 of 1997), order as follows