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A Garage by Any Other Name

 
 
John Brown of John Brown VAT Consultancy explains how Grange Builders (Quainton) Ltd (LON/02/9820) led to a revision of HMRC policy of what constitutes a 'garage' for the purposes of zero-rating
 
Long Crendon is a picturesque village extensively covered by Pevsner in the Buckinghamshire volume of The Buildings of England but little did it realise that it was to become the focal point for a revision of HM Revenue & Customs' policy on what constitutes a 'garage' for the purposes of the zero-rating related to protected buildings.
 
In about 1750 a house now known as 'Mulberry House' was built in the High Street. Within the curtilage of Mulberry House there is a small timber-framed barn which 'to all intents and purposes'...

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