Mr. RichardPage asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the yield of value added tax on funeral companies.
§ Mr. Peter ReesThe information is not available. Burials and cremations are exempt from VAT and businesses are not required to register for VAT unless they also make supplies of taxable goods and services exceeding in value the exemption limit, now £13,500 a year. In 1979–80 VAT amounting to £1.4 million was charged to their customers by businesses registered as funeral directors, cemeteries and crematoria.