Changes in VAT for 2024
- The zero VAT rate for bread and flour deliveries, the use of sports facilities, and general tourist services has been extended until June 30, 2024.
- The 9% VAT rate for restaurant services has been extended until December 31, 2024
- Starting from January 1, 2025, the threshold for mandatory VAT registration will be changed to 166,000 BGN.
- Adjustments to the utilized VAT credit are also required in cases of theft and when loss of goods is established.
- Article 80, paragraph 2 of the VAT Act is amended to include new scenarios in which adjustments to the utilized VAT credit are not required::
- In the case of defective goods that have become objectively unusable for the taxable person’s independent economic activity as a result of their usual use in the person’s independent economic activity;
- in case of defective of goods that are objectively unusable for the independent economic activity of the taxable person, when a subsequent taxable supply is made with these goods, including as per the order of chapter nineteen “a”, i.e. as waste for which the tax refund regime is applied;
- In the case of destruction, loss, or disappearance of goods resulting from events beyond the control of the taxable person, provided the person can prove that these events were not caused by their fault.
• Persons registered at the initiative of the National Revenue Agency (NRA) are given the opportunity, for any taxable supply made by them for which they owe tax under Article 102, paragraphs 3 and 4 of the VAT Act, in the first or following tax period, to cancel the issued documents without the included tax in accordance with Article 116 of the VAT Act and issue a new invoice indicating the tax on a separate line.
• Providers of payment services must maintain a register and provide information from it no later than the last day of the month following the calendar quarter, regarding the recipients and payments related to the payment services they provide for that calendar quarter.
• When a VAT-registered or non-registered person does not issue a document under Article 118, paragraph 1 of the VAT Act, the recipient has the right to withhold payment for the delivery/sale. This does not apply in cases where the law or the regulation under paragraph 4 allows for sales in a commercial establishment not to issue a fiscal or system receipt. The said will not be applied in cases where this law or the regulation under para. 4 allow for sales in a commercial establishment not to issue a fiscal or system voucher.