UK VAT Factsheet: Receipts, Registrations, and Trader Population by Sector

HM Revenue and Customs provides official statistics on UK Value Added Tax receipts, registrations, and trader population. The factsheet contains historic annual and quarterly series of VAT receipts, registrations, and deregistrations. Data is classified by economic sector and trade group.

Use Cases

• Forecasting government revenue based on historic VAT receipt series.
• Analyzing business churn based on VAT registration and deregistration trends.
• Studying sectoral economic performance using Home VAT declared by trade group.

Strengths

• Official statistics from HM Revenue and Customs, a primary source.
• Contains historic time-series data at both annual and quarterly frequencies.
• Data is disaggregated by economic sector and trade group.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Designated as Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics.

Provenance

Source

HM Revenue and Customs

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-17 07:40:54.036292; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom