Oliver Dowden MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Personal Care Services: TaxationTreasuryTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33929More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to tackle disguised employment practices in the hair and beauty sector.
Answer: HMRC is committed to ensuring that the tax system operates fairly and efficiently and creates a level playing field for compliant businesses. Most businesses pay what they owe but a minority fail to register with HMRC or only declare a portion of their ea...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployers' Contributions: Personal Care ServicesTreasuryTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33928More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the increase in employer National Insurance contributions on hair and beauty sector.
Answer: A Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) was published alongside the introduction of the Bill containing the changes to employer NICs. The TIIN sets out the impact of the policy on the exchequer, the economic impacts of the policy, the impacts on individu...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Care Services: VATTreasuryTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33927More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her Department's policies of the British Hair Consortium's report entitled Securing the future of UK hairdressing and beauty: the economic, fiscal and s
Answer: VAT is a broad-based tax on consumption, and the 20 per cent standard rate applies to most goods and services. VAT is the UK’s second largest tax, forecast to raise £171 billion in 2024/25. Tax breaks reduce the revenue available for vital public services...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Care Services: VATTreasuryTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33924More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential implications for his policies of the British Hair Consortium commissioned CBI Economics report entitled Securing the future of UK hairdressing and beauty: the
Answer: VAT is a broad-based tax on consumption, and the 20 per cent standard rate applies to most goods and services. VAT is the UK’s second largest tax, forecast to raise £171 billion in 2024/25. Tax breaks reduce the revenue available for vital public services...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: VATTreasuryTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6309More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of pupils moving schools midway through the academic year as a result of the imposition of VAT on independent schools on (a) staff, (b) parents and (c) pupils.
Answer: On 29 July, the Government announced that, as of 1 January 2025, all education services and vocational training provided by a private school in the UK for a charge will be subject to VAT at the standard rate of 20 per cent. This will also apply to boardin...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: VATTreasuryTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6308More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made a comparative assessment of the potential merits of introducing VAT on private schools (a) during the academic year and (b) at the start of the new academic year.
Answer: On 29 July, the Government announced that, as of 1 January 2025, all education services and vocational training provided by a private school in the UK for a charge will be subject to VAT at the standard rate of 20 per cent. This will also apply to boardin...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
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