Question follow-through · 18843
Small Businesses: Billing
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps the Department is taking to ensure that the design of the UK’s electronic invoicing regime minimises costs and administrative burdens for small businesses.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 14 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 20 Jul 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps the Department is taking to ensure that the design of the UK’s electronic invoicing regime minimises costs and administrative burdens for small businesses.
16 Jul 2026
Target answer date
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20 Jul 2026
Answer published
Electronic invoicing, or e-invoicing, will become mandatory for VAT transactions from April 2029. E-invoicing will help business productivity and efficiency, reduce late payments and streamline tax administration. DBT and HMRC ran a consultation between F...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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