Venture Capital Trusts statistics
Statistics on the number of investors claiming tax relief on their VCT investments.
Venture Capital Trusts (VCT) are a tax-based venture capital scheme designed to help smaller higher-risk trading companies to raise finance.
VCT Official and National Statistics publications provide information on the number of trusts and the amount of funds raised. They also provide information on the number of investors and the amounts invested as reported on investors’ Self Assessment tax returns.
Background information and detailed guidance can be found in the Venture Capital Schemes Manual.
HMRC has taken the decision to delay a part of the 2023 publication of statistics on the amount of funds raised by Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs), the number of VCTs raising funds and the number of VCTs managing funds.
This is to take advantage of utilizing HMRC administration data in the production of these statistics. It is expected that publication will take place in May 2024.
HMRC will publish the rest of the statistics on investors claiming Income Tax relief and the amount of investment on which Income Tax relief was claimed through Self-Assessment as per the original plan in January 2024.
National Statistics
Publications from 2023 onwards are available on this page. Pre-2023 versions of statistics releases are available on the National Archives website.
Other statistics information
Last updated 24 January 2024 + show all updates
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Updated for 2023 publication
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Added a note to highlight a delay to a part of the 2023 edition of the statistics.
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Addition of 2022 statistics.
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Removed pre-2021 publications and added a link to the National Archives.
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New published statistics - Venture Capital Trusts: December 2020
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Addition of 2019 statistics
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Addition of December 2018 publication. This combines both Table 8.6 and Table 8.9 for the first time.
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Addition of December 2017 publication.
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Addition of October 2017 Official Statistics.
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Added a link to the Venture Policy Schemes Manual for detailed information and policy guidance.
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Addition of December 2015 publication.
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Updated to include an annual VCT Table 8.9 release covering investors data for the financial year ending 2013. In this release the number of investors and the amount claimed through Self-Assessment are published in value terms as opposed to percentages published in previous National Statistics VCT Tables 8.9.
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First published.