Value Added Tax (Medical Research)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 29 November 1973.

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Photo of Mr Terence Higgins Mr Terence Higgins , Worthing 12:00, 29 November 1973

We debated this subject at considerable length. Discriminatory relief of the kind suggested would have the effect of reproducing many of the anomalies and distortions which occurred with purchase tax. Therefore, my right hon. Friend thought it appropriate to give help to charities in other ways on a very substantial scale.