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Hospitality Industry: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing VAT on hospitality.

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Answering body: Treasury
Tabled: 10 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 12 Mar 2025
Answer: 18 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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10 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing VAT on hospitality.
12 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Mar 2025
Answer published
To support hospitality businesses, the Government intends to introduce permanently lower business rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties, with Rateable Values below £500,000, from 2026-27. Ahead of these changes being made, the Govern...

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