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  Finance Bill - Rate of Value Added Tax
  
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  @ MP voted no to increase Value Added Tax from 17.5% to 20% as of the 4th of January 2011. 
  @ MP voted aye not to increase Value Added Tax from 17.5% to 20% as of the 4th of January 2011.
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted to increase Value Added Tax from 17.5% to 20% as of the 4th of January 2011.
  
  The amendment voted on was proposed by Stewart Hosie, Scottish National Party MP for Dundee East.  His amendment stated:
  
  :I beg to move amendment 13, in page 2, line 7, leave out [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/003/11003.1-5.html#jvat subsection (1)].
  
  The subsection he was seeking to be removed from the Bill stated:
  
  :In section 2(1) of VATA 1994 (rate of VAT), for â17.5 per centâ substitute â20 per centâ. 
  
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  * [1] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/003/11003.i-ii.html Finance Bill as at 1st July 2010] ([http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/003/11003.1-5.html#jvat Section 3 Rate of Value Added Tax])
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/003/amend/pbc0031307m.39-45.html Amendment sheet] (Amendment in question is no. 13) 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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