Question follow-through · 28128
Small Businesses: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the VAT registration threshold on the net revenue growth of SMEs.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 8 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 10 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 17 Sept 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the VAT registration threshold on the net revenue growth of SMEs.
10 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Sept 2026
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 not in the VAT system at all.
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
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