Consultation outcome

Museums and galleries tax relief consultation

• From: HM Treasury
• Published: 5 September 2016
• Last updated: 5 December 2016 — See all updates

This consultation has concluded

Download the full outcome

Museums and galleries tax relief: response to the consultation

Ref: ISBN 978-1-911375-46-3, PU2015

PDF, 292 KB, 23 pages

Detail of outcome

This document summarises the responses to the consultation on the museums and galleries tax relief and sets out the decisions which the government has made on the basis of these responses.

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Original consultation

Summary

A consultation into a tax relief designed to encourage the creation of more and higher quality exhibitions, as well as to support touring of exhibitions across the country and abroad, raising the UK’s profile internationally.

This consultation ran from
10am on 5 September 2016 to 11:59pm on 28 October 2016

Consultation description

Budget 2016 announced that a new tax relief for museums and galleries would be introduced in April 2017, following a consultation in 2016.

Britain is home to a diverse range of museums and galleries and this tax relief will support them to develop creative new exhibitions and to display their collections to a wider audience.

This consultation document sets out the details of the proposed tax relief and seeks views in key areas of its design. Its aim is to develop a museums and galleries tax relief that works well for the sector.

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Museums and galleries tax relief consultation

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Published 5 September 2016
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1. 5 December 2016

   Response document published.

2. 5 September 2016

   First published.