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20 January 2021 at 09:28
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You can register for VAT voluntarily and you become a ‘repayment trader’, that is, its output tax is regularly less than input tax because the business mainly has zero-rated sales and you can also HMRC for the monthly return option so that the refunds come to you monthly. The VAT refund/payment is the difference between output and input tax. So in your example above, output tax will be zero and input tax £1.50, hence a net refund of £1.50.
Hope this helps.