Submitted on Thursday 30th June 2022
Rejected on Tuesday 5th July 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Lower VAT to help with the cost of living crisis.
Now the UK has left the EU it can change VAT rates. We believe the Government should reduce the standard rate of VAT, to reduce the financial burden on families and businesses, particularly in light of the increased cost of living.
Reducing VAT temporarily will help the less well-off, as opposed to the current taxpayer-funded plan proposed by the Government's cost of living coordinator, David Buttress. His plan is to encourage businesses to divert marketing spend so that they can cut prices, reducing the cost for the consumer. However, this could have a negative impact on those employed in the UK creative, advertising and marketing industries.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Reduce the standard rate of VAT to help with increased cost of living: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/609147
Cut the standard VAT rate from 20% to 5%: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/617044
VAT Complete Removal: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/614072
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