What is term REDS (Registered Excise Dealers and Shippers)
Registered Excise Dealers and Shippers (REDS) are revenue traders who are approved by and registered with UK to receive excise goods commercially from other European Community countries.
There are four classifications of REDS:
Principals, who import products only for their own utilization
Operators, who may represent at least one merchants
Vital/Agents, may import a few products for their own business yet additionally go about as an operator for different shippers and
Expense Representatives, who represent obligation in the interest of at least one merchants in other EU nations. There is a connection to remove offering, subtle elements of which can be found in Notice 197 Excise merchandise: holding and development Part 90.
All extract merchandise dispatched to REDS will be dispatched under obligation suspension courses of action (installment delayed).
REDS are not permitted to hold merchandise in obligation suspension. The obligation is expected (and should be recorded in the merchants' obligation account), when the merchandise is foreign into the UK or pass a UK obligation point.
The utilization to which the products may consequently be placed not the slightest bit influences the date on which the obligation delay account is charged. REDS should as of now be enrolled for VAT, and there is arrangement for gathering or divisional enlistments.
Risk of Importer
Obligations will emerge inside the REDS administration because of the non-installment of:
a settled punishment issued for resistance;
a BACS charge on the particular obligation delay charge day; or
an appraisal (EX601) for obligation due on merchandise excluded in the dealer's month to month return.
The REDS is at risk to pay the obligation due on the merchandise he imports, notwithstanding when following up in the interest of another person. The individual subject to pay the obligation on account of an importation of extract products from another part state will be the merchant of the extract merchandise.
Shipper of extract products implies any proprietor of those merchandise or any individual helpfully inspired by those products.
In the event that a REDS demonstrations without the particular specialist of the merchant, we should initially approach the REDS for installment of the obligation due.