Question follow-through · 43325
Deposit Return Schemes: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the potential impact of applying VAT to unredeemed deposits in the deposit return scheme on revenues to the Exchequer.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 1 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 9 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the potential impact of applying VAT to unredeemed deposits in the deposit return scheme on revenues to the Exchequer.
3 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Government is currently considering the VAT treatment of deposits charged under deposit return schemes. Should VAT be applied to unreturned deposits HMRC expect the impact on exchequer receipts to be negligible.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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