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date	17/06/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Solar Power: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of the proposals to increase VAT on solar panels by 20 per cent of the affordability by households of solar technology.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	265551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>Under EU law the Government is required to make changes to the reduced rate of VAT for the installation of certain energy saving materials.</p><p> </p><p>The changes have been made to comply with European VAT rules while maintaining as much of the relief as possible.</p><p> </p><p>The VAT treatment of the majority of solar panel installations is expected to be unaffected by the changes.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 20/06/2019 11:06:16 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1129082

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Solar Power: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason the Government plans to increase VAT on domestic solar panels and batteries from 5 per cent to 20 per cent in Autumn 2019.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	258958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government is currently amending VAT rules regarding the installation of certain energy saving materials in order to comply with a ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union while maintaining as much of the relief as possible. The VAT treatment of the vast majority of solar panel installations is expected to be unaffected by the changes.</p><p> </p><p>Under UK law, battery storage systems have always been subject to VAT at the standard rate of 20%.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 11/06/2019 14:42:26 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1129133

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Solar Power: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will keep VAT to five per cent on new solar panel installations.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
tabling member printed	Christine Jardine
uin	259470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>To comply with a ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the Government is required to make changes to the reduced rate of VAT for the installation of certain energy saving materials.</p><p> </p><p>The changes have been made to comply with the ruling, whilst maintaining as much of the relief as possible. The VAT treatment of the vast majority of solar panel installations is expected to be unaffected by the changes.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 06/06/2019 09:34:19 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4634 label Biography information for Christine Jardine