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	registered interest
	date	09/11/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Audiobooks: VAT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to introduce a zero rating of VAT for audiobooks.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	83519
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2022 answer text <p>An extension of the zero rate of VAT was introduced in May 2020 to provide consistency in approach between certain physical and digital publications. Audiobooks are already taxed consistently at the standard rate in both physical and digital format.</p><p>Providing VAT relief for audiobooks would have a fiscal cost and should be viewed in the context of over £50 billion of other requests for relief from VAT that the Government has received since the EU referendum.</p><p>Although the Government keeps all taxes under review, there are no plans to change the rate of VAT on audiobooks.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 83520 83521 question first answered 16/11/2022 14:35:12 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1541251

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Audiobooks: VAT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made a recent assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of audiobooks on increasing engagement with reading for people with disabilities and other underrepresented readers; and whether he plans to introduce a zero rating of VAT for audiobooks.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	83520
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2022 answer text <p>An extension of the zero rate of VAT was introduced in May 2020 to provide consistency in approach between certain physical and digital publications. Audiobooks are already taxed consistently at the standard rate in both physical and digital format.</p><p>Providing VAT relief for audiobooks would have a fiscal cost and should be viewed in the context of over £50 billion of other requests for relief from VAT that the Government has received since the EU referendum.</p><p>Although the Government keeps all taxes under review, there are no plans to change the rate of VAT on audiobooks.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 83519 83521 question first answered 16/11/2022 14:35:12 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1541252

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Audiobooks: 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 potential merits for equality for people who are visually impaired of removing of VAT on audiobooks.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	83521
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2022 answer text <p>An extension of the zero rate of VAT was introduced in May 2020 to provide consistency in approach between certain physical and digital publications. Audiobooks are already taxed consistently at the standard rate in both physical and digital format.</p><p>Providing VAT relief for audiobooks would have a fiscal cost and should be viewed in the context of over £50 billion of other requests for relief from VAT that the Government has received since the EU referendum.</p><p>Although the Government keeps all taxes under review, there are no plans to change the rate of VAT on audiobooks.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 83519 83520 question first answered 16/11/2022 14:35:12 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe