educational visit

English

Noun

educational visit (plural educational visits)

1. (UK, finance) An official visit by a government representative to a person or company registered for VAT (value added tax) to ensure they understand their tax obligations.
   • 1975, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command:

     The purpose of an educational visit was to tell the trader what the tax was and what he had to do […]

   • 1988, Alan A. Tait, Value Added Tax: International Practice and Problems, page 176:

     In practice, this is not always possible, but an educational visit should be paid to every trader not later than six months after VAT starts.

   • 1991, Value Added Tax Tribunals Reports, page 161:

     Nor can they expect to rely on the lack of an educational visit from an officer of Customs and Excise. If everyone were able to rely on that it would be too easy a way out of getting the tax return wrong.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see educational,‎ visit.

   The pupils were taken on an educational visit to the science museum.