Written Question·Treasury·UIN 36128

Business: Taxation

Tabled: 6 March 2025

Answered: 13 March 2025

Question

Neil O'Brien

Conservative — Harborough, Oadby and Wigston

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the new VAT legislation for private schools led to HMRC amending or redefining the scope of input tax recovery for business who made exempt supplies prior to registration.

Answer

James Murray

VAT incurred prior to registration is not input tax. However, HMRC has discretion under the provisions of Regulation 111 of the VAT Regulations 1995 (SI 1995/2518) to allow such VAT to be treated as input tax, subject to the normal rules. There was theref...

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