Official Statistics

Quality report: VAT bulletin

A quality report on the Value Added Tax (VAT) Bulletin which contains quarterly statistics on historical receipts, trader populations, and duty rates of VAT in the UK.

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This quality report relates to the Value Added Tax (VAT) Bulletin National Statistics. The purpose is to provide users with information about the quality of the outputs as set out by the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.

The Value Added Tax (VAT) bulletin was published quarterly until July 2021. Following the consultation on the reduction and consolidation of HMRC statistics publications, which ran between 8 February 2021 and 12 March 2021, the final publication of this bulletin will be in July 2021. From Autumn 2021 the contents of this bulletin will be provided within the Annual VAT statistics.

The VAT Bulletin provides data on historical receipts, trader populations, and duty rates of VAT in the UK.

Archived quality reports for the ‘VAT Bulletin’ are available at the National Archives.

Published 11 November 2013
Last updated 7 June 2021 + show all updates
  1. Quality Report updated for 2021.

  2. First published.