Question follow-through · 52518
VAT: Registration
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has assessed the potential merits of increasing the VAT registration threshold in line with inflation.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 14 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 May 2025
- Answer
- 20 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has assessed the potential merits of increasing the VAT registration threshold in line with inflation.
20 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 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 means the majority of UK businesses are kept out of the VAT system.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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