Question follow-through · 16010
Audiobooks: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to remove VAT on audiobooks.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 25 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 27 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 3 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to remove VAT on audiobooks.
27 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Dec 2024
Answer published
There are no current plans to remove VAT on audiobooks. 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 break...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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