Question follow-through · 121537
Small Businesses: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the administrative burden to the Treasury of processing VAT receipts for Businesses with a turnover under £250,000.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 17 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 19 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 25 Mar 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the administrative burden to the Treasury of processing VAT receipts for Businesses with a turnover under £250,000.
19 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Mar 2026
Answer published
HMRC has not made an estimate of the administrative burden to the Treasury for processing VAT receipts for businesses with a turnover below £250,000. HMRC measures its overall operational costs across all taxes and does not hold this information at the le...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Small Businesses: VAT
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Garages and Petrol Stations: Government Assistance
10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has considered introducing (a) business rates relief and (b) National Insurance contribution rebates for small independent MOT testing stations.
Tax Avoidance
13 May 2026 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Tax avoidance loan schemes and the loan charge, published on 26 November 2025, if she will publish a breakdown of the sources of the £3.2 billion figure.
Electricity: Standing Charges
15 May 2026 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her department has made of the potential impact of VAT on domestic energy bills on regional inequalities in electricity standing charges and unit rates.
Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties
20 May 2026 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the proportionality of Vehicle Excise Duty rates for higher-emission vehicles; and whether she plans to review the differential between vehicles in the lowest and highest emission ban
Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties
20 May 2026 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of whether Vehicle Excise Duty rates for vehicles in the highest bands are a proportionate application of the polluter pays principle.