# The Value Added Tax (Increase of Registration Limits) Order 1988

S.I. 1988/508 · made 15 March 1988

This Order increases the VAT registration limit from £21,300 to £22,100 per annum and the single quarterly limit from £7,250 to £7,500 with effect from 16th March 1988.

Made under: Value Added Tax Act 1983 (repealed 1.9.1994) (Schedule 1 paragraph 12)

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## Introductory text

VALUE ADDED TAX
Made 15th March 1988
Laid before the House of Commons 15th March 1988
Coming into force:
Articles 1, 2(a) and (b) 16th March 1988
Article 2(c) 1st June 1988
The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by paragraph 12 of Schedule 1 to the Value Added Tax Act 1983, hereby make the following Order:

## 1 

This Order may be cited as the Value Added Tax (Increase of Registration Limits) Order 1988 and shall come into force on the following dates:
Articles 1, 2(a) and (b)
16th March 1988
Article 2(c)
1st June 1988

## 2 

Schedule 1() to the Value Added Tax Act 1983 (provisions as to liability to be registered) shall be amended as follows:
(a) in paragraph 1(1)(a)(i) for the figure “£7,250” there shall be substituted “£7,500”,
(b) in paragraphs 1(1)(a)(ii), 1(1)(b) and 1(2) for the figure “£21,300” there shall be substituted “£22,100”,
(c) in paragraphs 1(3), 2(1) and 2(2) for the figure “£20,300” there shall be substituted “£21,100”.

## Signature

Tony Durant
David Lightbown
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
15th March 1988

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order increases the VAT registration limit from £21,300 to £22,100 per annum and the single quarterly limit from £7,250 to £7,500 with effect from 16th March 1988.
The Order also increases the limit for cancellation of registration from £20,300 to £21,100 with effect from 1st June 1988.
The later date of implementation of the change in the cancellation limits is to allow time for potential applicants for deregistration to consider their position and to make application to their local VAT office.

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