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Shipping: Tonnage Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the update to Non-structural tax relief statistics, published on 5 December 2024, if she will provide an annual breakdown of the relief from Corporation Tax received by qualifying shipowners in the

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Treasury
Tabled
10 Jan 2025
Target answer date
15 Jan 2025
Answer
15 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 10 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the update to Non-structural tax relief statistics, published on 5 December 2024, if she will provide an annual breakdown of the relief from Corporation Tax received by qualifying shipowners in the

  2. 15 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 15 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    Tonnage Tax is an advantageous corporation tax regime for shipping companies. It was introduced in 2000 to improve the competitiveness of the UK’s shipping industry. As set out on GOV.UK, the Government forecasts that the cost of the regime in 2024-25 w...

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