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VAT: Non-payment

Asked by Ben LakePlaid CymruTreasuryTabled Answered 28 April 2026UIN 129484

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many non-established taxable persons liable to be registered for VAT under Schedule 1A to the VAT Act 1994 have an overdue VAT bill.

Answered by Dan Tomlinson

HMRC holds management information on VAT liabilities, but data for non‑established taxable persons is not robust enough to provide reliable estimates of the population with VAT debt or amounts overdue.

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