What Triggers a VAT Inspection? How to Remain Safe?

The need to collate annual account figures to those in VAT returns.
Sale or purchase of goods from third parties.
Check the credibility of the statistics you submit and the type of business to average VAT rates.
Businesses operating in a high-risk sector
HMRC could act on a tipoff on questionable operations in a company.
A new VAT claim where there was none before will always spook them.
Increase in VAT claims or a shift of VAT repayment
A bad compliance record of VAT