The VAT Act makes provision for the supply of residential fixed property by a VAT vendor (being a property developer) to be subject to VAT at the standard rate of 15%. The property developer has to charge VAT on the sale of the residential fixed property. Depending on market conditions, residential fixed property developers are at times unable to dispose of newly built residential fixed properties for extended periods of time. In order to maintain expenses incurred in developing such fixed property, such as bank loan repayments, property developers often enter into short term temporary leases for such fixed property until a buyer can be found. […]