VAT: Tax Yields

(asked on 25th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the receipts were to the Exchequer from VAT on goods imported to the UK directly by VAT end-users, in each of the last 144 months.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 19th April 2021

Data on import VAT receipts received directly from end-users is not available. Traders do not have to declare the position whether the goods are to be used privately, as this would impose an excessive administrative burden.

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