Remembrance Day: VAT

(asked on 1st September 2023) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 25 July 2023 to Question 194529 on Royal British Legion: VAT, if he will make it his policy to remove VAT on Remembrance Day wreaths.


Answered by
Victoria Atkins Portrait
Victoria Atkins
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
This question was answered on 11th September 2023

VAT has been designed as a broad-based tax on consumption, and the twenty per cent standard rate applies to the vast majority of goods and services. While there are exceptions to the standard rate, these have always been strictly limited by both legal and fiscal considerations.

Whilst there are no plans to make changes to the VAT treatment of Royal British Legion products, the Government keeps all taxes under review.

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