Charity Investment Conference 2012
15 Oct 2012
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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HMRC's new dispute resolution service would instil more confidence if the facilitators were independent, says Socrates Socratous.
Charities would suffer from lower incomes if trustees were to be paid, warns VAT specialist Socrates Socratous, commenting on Lord Hodgson's claim last week that payment of trustees was inevitable.
The Charity Tax Group is hoping to hear this month whether HMRC has changed its mind about proposed changes to VAT rules on building work which experts have warned could be “very costly” to the sector.
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.
Charities that have IT staff on joint contracts with an external supplier may have to pay more VAT following a recent VAT tribunal decision.
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.

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