On 13 August 2009, HMRC issued new detailed guidance about the reversion in the standard rate of VAT to 17.5%, as well as details of the anti-forestalling legislation.
HMRC issued Revenue & Customs Brief 51/09 and VAT Information Sheet 14/09 to replace the incorrect R&C Brief 44/09 and Information Sheet 12/09 which are now withdrawn. These concern the detailed changes to the operation to certain rules relating to the option to tax property which came into effect on 1 August 2009.
On 14 August 2009, HMRC issued Compliance Check/Fact Sheet 7 and Compliance Check/Fact Sheet 10 which give information about penalties following compliance checks and when penalties for careless errors are suspended.
These documents can all be found here http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/news/index.htm on the HMRC newspage.