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  Reduction of VAT from 17.5% to 15%
  
  --- MOTION EFFECT ---
  
  The majority of MPs voted in favour of reducing the VAT rate from 17.5% to 15%.
  
  They did this by voting against the motion[1] to annul the Statutory Instrument laid before the house for the reduction of the rate by fourteen and two sevenths of a percent which came into force on 1 December 2008.[2]
  
  * [1] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2008-12-17a.1133.0 Vince Cable MP], House of Commons, 17 December 2008
  * [2] [http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2008/uksi_20083020_en_1 The Value Added Tax (Change of Rate) Order 2008], 24 November 2008
  
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