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  Emergency Budget - Value Added Tax
  
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  @ MP voted aye to raise VAT to 20% from the 4th of January 2011. 
  @ MP voted no not to raise VAT to 20% from the 4th of January 2011. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted in favour of raising VAT to 20% from the 4th of January 2011. 
  
  The text of the motion MPs voted in favour of was:
  
  :That provision be made for and in connection with increasing the standard rate of value added tax.
  
  
  This followed an announcement in the budget[1] saying:
  
  :On 4 January next year, the main rate of VAT will rise from 17.5% to 20%
  
  As one of two votes following the debate on the Emergency Budget support for this motion might be taken as general support for the budget as a whole. 
  
  * [1] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2010-06-22a.166.2 George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, House of Commons Emergency Budget Speech 22 June 2010]. 
  
  
  
  
  
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