HC Deb 28 January 2000 vol 343 c361W
Mr. Curry

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his answer of 17 January 2000,Official Report, column 356W, what assumptions he made about the level of VAT evasion which would occur with a 5 per cent. rate on house repair and refurbishment relative to the current rate. [107110]

Dawn Primarolo

The effect on the level of VAT evasion of levying a 5 per cent. rate of VAT both on house refurbishment and repair and on construction on previously undeveloped land is uncertain. My answer of 17 January therefore made no allowance for any such effect.

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