Socrates Socratous is director of SOC VAT Consultants and prior to working for the company spent five years at PricewaterhouseCoopers in London as a senior manager.
Previous positions include working for nine years as an advisor for small-to-medium businesses and charities at Horwath Clark Whitehill, and five years as an excise officer and VAT inspector for Customs & Excise.
Socrates is currently a member of the Charity Finance Directors Group and the Charity Tax Group.
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Socrates Socratous outlines new HMRC proposals for VAT on building work which could be costly for charities.
Socrates Socratous outlines the VAT implications of transactions where no money changes hands.
Favours for staff or sponsors could hold hidden VAT implications. Socrates Socratous takes us through one corporate example which could transfer into the charity sector.
Socrates Socratous and Linda Skilbeck look at a VAT tribunal case which provides an important lesson for recovering VAT.
Socrates Socratous and Linda Skilbeck report on the result of the first UK VAT case since the ECJ’s decision in VNLTO cast doubt on the Lennartz principle.
The Whitechapel Art Gallery is a registered charity and displays works of art to the general public for no consideration. It acquired an old derelict library building adjacent to its existing premises for £900k with the intention of converting it into a gallery.
Sally Hutchings and Socrates Socratous review an important recent VAT decision
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