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In response to the late-2000s recession, Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling announced in November 2008 that the standard rate of VAT would be reduced from 17.5% to 15% with effect from 1 December 2008. [16] [17] However, in December 2009, Darling announced that the standard rate of VAT would return to 17.5% with effect from 1 January 2010. [18 ...
On 1 December 2008, VAT was reduced to 15 per cent, as a reaction to the late-2000s recession, by Chancellor Alistair Darling. [citation needed] On 1 January 2010, VAT returned to 17.5 per cent. [citation needed] On 4 January 2011, VAT was raised to 20 per cent by Chancellor George Osborne, where it remains.
The aim of the EU VAT directive (Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value-added tax) is to harmonize VATs within the EU VAT area and specifies that VAT rates must be above a certain limit. [5]: 97,99 It has several basic purposes: [citation needed] Harmonization of VAT law (content)
Centrica became a separate, distinct corporation on 17 February 1997, when British Gas plc split (demerged) to form three separate companies: Centrica plc, BG plc and Transco plc. Centrica took over gas sales and gas trading, services and retail businesses, together with the gas production operations in the North and South Morecambe gas fields ...
[98] [99] [100] However, two states enacted a form of VAT in lieu of a business income tax. Michigan used a form of VAT known as the "Single Business Tax" (SBT) from 1975 until voter-initiated legislation repealed it, replaced by the Michigan Business Tax in 2008. [101] Hawaii has a 4% General Excise Tax (GET) that is charged on gross business ...
His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (commonly HM Revenue and Customs, or HMRC) [4] [5] is a non-ministerial department of the UK government responsible for the collection of taxes, the payment of some forms of state support, the administration of other regulatory regimes including the national minimum wage and the issuance of national insurance numbers.
[citation needed] In the United States, the IRS has about 1,177 forms and instructions, [48] 28.4111 megabytes of Internal Revenue Code [49] which contained 3.8 million words as of 1 February 2010, [50] numerous tax regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations, [51] and supplementary material in the Internal Revenue Bulletin. [52]
Until 2020 the United Kingdom was a member of the EU and, as a member state was obliged to apply European Union value added tax to a range of goods. Total online retail spending online grew by 33.4% in 2007 to a record £10.9bn and UK online sales were predicted to reach £28.1bn by 2011 – 8.9% of all retail sales.