Treasury written question – answered at on 8 September 2025.
Richard Holden
Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
To ask the Chancellor of the exchequer, whether the Government plans to impose VAT at 20% on all private hire fares.
Richard Holden
Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
To ask the Chancellor of the exchequer, with reference to her Department's consultation entitled Consultation on the VAT Treatment of Private Hire Vehicles, which closed on 8 August 2024, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of applying 20% VAT to private hire vehicle journeys on vulnerable users.
Richard Holden
Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
To ask the Chancellor of the exchequer, when she plans to publish a response to her Department's consultation entitled Consultation on the VAT Treatment of Private Hire Vehicles, which closed on 8 August 2024.
Richard Holden
Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
To ask the Chancellor of the exchequer, whether her Department produced an impact assessment prior to the Supreme Court judgment in DELTA Merseyside Ltd v Uber Britannia Ltd on the application of VAT to private hire vehicle journeys.
Dan Tomlinson
The Exchequer Secretary
The Government continues to take this complex issue very seriously and recognises businesses’ need for certainty.
The Government is carefully considering the wide range of views shared through last year's consultation on the VAT Treatment of Private Hire Vehicles and will publish a detailed response soon.
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