VAT: Registration
(asked on 11th January 2023) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many VAT de-registrations there were by VAT quarter between 2015 and 2022.
VAT de-registrations statistics can be found in the publication HMRC Value Added Tax (VAT) annual statistics, in Table 2 of the publication tables.
A summary is provided below showing the total number of VAT de-registrations from January 2015 to September 2021 by calendar year and quarter.
Number of VAT de-registrations by year and quarter | |||||||
Year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
Q1 | 48,699 | 50,189 | 71,520 | 55,291 | 76,011 | 58,292 | 49,981 |
Q2 | 47,382 | 52,611 | 88,656 | 57,100 | 66,985 | 46,448 | 67,695 |
Q3 | 45,446 | 50,158 | 58,727 | 44,619 | 56,392 | 49,875 | 49,901 |
Q4 | 46,744 | 48,109 | 50,381 | 59,842 | 57,322 | 48,104 | N/A |
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Total | 188,271 | 201,067 | 269,284 | 216,852 | 256,710 | 202,719 | N/A |
The latest published de-registration statistics in the HMRC VAT annual statistics publication provide figures up to the month of September 2021.
There will be an update to these statistics as part of the next HMRC VAT annual statistics publication which has been announced for release on 24 January 2023 and this publication will provide more up to date figures.