United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 201504
Sports: VAT
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13 October 2023
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23 October 2023 · Answer
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23 October 2023
Summary
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of reducing the level of VAT applied to children’s (a) swimming lessons and (b) other sports.
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13 October 2023
Written question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of reducing the level of VAT applied to children’s (a) swimming lessons and (b) other sports.
Source: Commons
23 October 2023
Answer
VAT has been designed as a broad-based tax on consumption, and the twenty per cent standard rate applies to the majority of goods and services. While there are exceptions to the standard rate, these have always been strictly limited by both legal and fisc...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-10-13/201504
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1663650
- uk · wq-1663650 · source updated 23 October 2023