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HMRC statistics relating to VAT gap estimates.
An Official Statistics release. Published 26 March 2025. 1. What is the…
Publication schedule and announcements VAT receipts from April 2023 to…
1. Contact Organisation unit - Knowledge, Analysis, and Intelligence (KAI)…
Summary of HM Revenue and Customs' tax receipts, National Insurance contributions (NICs), and expenditure for the UK.
Released 21 March 2025. Next release 23 April 2025. Headlines Gross HMRC…
Released 21 March 2025. Next release due 23 April 2025. About this release…
A final evaluation report summarising the main evidence and conclusions of HMRC’s impact evaluation of Making Tax Digital for VAT.
A final evaluation report summarising the main evidence and conclusions of…
This report estimates the wider economic benefit of Making Tax Digital for VAT, beyond any requirements to meet tax obligations.
Research exploring the extent to which Making Tax Digital for VAT is achieving its objectives of reducing scope for error and making it easier to get tax right.
An overview of VAT statistics, covering receipts information and the characteristics of the VAT trader population in the UK.
This page presents the annual historic estimates for the Scottish share of UK VAT for the purposes of the Scottish Government budget (Scottish VAT Assignment).
Research into customer perceptions and experiences of the VAT registration.
Research into customer perceptions and experiences of VAT de-registration.
A longer time series of contributions to the Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers' housing costs (CPIH) and Consumer Prices Index (CPI), UK, monthly.
Research exploring the impact of Making Tax Digital on VAT customers below the £85,000 threshold following requirements introduced in April 2022.
Mixed methods research exploring the wider economic benefits experienced by VAT business using fully functional Making Tax Digital (MTD) software.
A quality report on the VAT annual statistics which provides an overview of VAT statistics and the VAT trader population in the UK.
HMRC commissioned research to survey awareness of and preparedness for Making Tax Digital amongst VAT registered businesses below the VAT threshold.
A quality report on the Value Added Tax (VAT) Bulletin which contains quarterly statistics on historical receipts, trader populations, and duty rates of VAT in the UK.
This research explored reasons why mandated businesses had not signed up to Making Tax Digital for VAT.
This research provides estimates of the percentage of business-to-consumer sales as a proportion of overall sales for the VAT unregistered population.
The UK’s VAT-registered business population, provisional statistics for 2017, for businesses declaring trade in goods with EU and non-EU countries.
This research explored the knowledge and use of VAT partial exemption among businesses in 17 industry sectors.
Combined quantitative and qualitative study examining why small businesses register for VAT and their perceptions and experiences of doing so.
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