Question follow-through · 61750
Confectionery: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance she is providing to sweetshop businesses on VAT applied to freeze-dried products.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 23 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 26 Jun 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance she is providing to sweetshop businesses on VAT applied to freeze-dried products.
26 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jun 2025
Answer published
Guidance on which types of food are zero-rated and which are standard-rated for VAT purposes can be found in VAT Notice 701/14 Food products on GOV.UK. Confectionery is covered at paragraph 3.6. Businesses which have read the guidance and are still unsure...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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