Vat Calculations For Cafe. Eat In/Out, 20/5 Percent, Etc

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I am the part-time bookkeeper for a  busy cafe, which has been subject to all the recent Covid19 restrictions, etc. 

 

Prior to March, takeaway food was a minor part of the activity, and we managed to cope with the VAT calculations (cakes versus biscuits, etc....) for HMRC. From April we moved to 100% takeaway, and I am wrestling with the VAT consequences. We don't have one of those tills like a fairground organ with hundreds of buttons.

 

Now we have cautiously reopened part of the indoor seating, changing all the proportions, and VAT has dropped from 20% to 5%, changing all the calculations.  The HMRC websites are very comprehensive, and give a long list of VATable items, but this post is to ask - are others having a struggle with this?