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Version status: Amended | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 July 2021 - onwards
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Article 61a

1. A taxable person or an intermediary acting on his behalf shall submit his final VAT return and any late submissions of previous returns, and the corresponding payments, to the Member State which was the Member State of identification at the time of the cessation, exclusion or change where:

(a) he ceases to use one of the special schemes;

(b) he is excluded from one of the special schemes;

(c) he changes the Member State of identification in accordance with Article 57f.

Any corrections to the final return and previous returns arising after the submission of the final return shall be discharged directly with the tax authorities of the Member State of consumption concerned.

2. In respect of all taxable persons on whose behalf he is acting, an intermediary shall submit the final VAT returns and any late submissions of previous returns, and the corresponding payments, to the Member State which was the Member State of identification at the time of deletion or change where:

(a) he is deleted from the identification register;

(b) he changes the Member State of identification in accordance with Article 57f(2).