Part of Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 9 February 1984.
Although I appreciate the aid that is given by the Government, is it not disgraceful that when people make donations these are liable to VAT? Let me give as an example the Spastics Society, which paid £500,000 last year on VAT contributions. Those were donations on which tax and VAT had already been paid. Is that not unfair?