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Small Businesses: VAT

Asked by Mr Angus MacDonaldLiberal DemocratTreasuryTabled Answered 25 March 2026UIN 121537

The question

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.

Answered by Dan Tomlinson

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 level of granularity required to isolate costs attributable to businesses with a turnover under £250,000.

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