Question follow-through · 48799
Small Businesses: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of increasing the VAT registration threshold on levels of growth of small and medium-sized businesses.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 28 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 May 2025
- Answer
- 6 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Economy and business
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Votes on this topic
- Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots · 15 Jul 2026
- Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 · 15 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
28 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of increasing the VAT registration threshold on levels of growth of small and medium-sized businesses.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 May 2025
Answer published
At £90,000, the UK has a higher VAT registration threshold than any EU country and the joint highest in the OECD. This keeps the majority of businesses out of the VAT regime altogether.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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