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VAT: Registration

Commons · Question 46269 · Tabled 17 Apr 2025 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 29 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to raise the VAT registration threshold in line with inflation to support small businesses.

Answer

Answered by James Murray, 29 Apr 2025

At £90,000, the UK has a higher VAT registration threshold than any EU country and the joint highest in the OECD. This keeps the majority of businesses out of the VAT regime altogether.Any consideration of changes to the threshold would have to carefully ...