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HMRC · HMRC tax and NICs receipts for the UK

VAT receipts

Year ending March 2026 Provisional

£179.9bnmillion

VAT receipts was £179.9bn in the year ending March 2026, up 5.2% (£8.9bn) from £171bn in the year ending March 2025.

▲ 5.2% · +£8.9bn against Year ending March 2025 (previous period)

  1. HMRC count
  2. Year ending March 2026
  3. published 21 August 2026
  4. Table 2
  5. row “2025 to 2026”
  6. column “Value Added Tax”
  7. cell value 179861

Year ending March 2026 is the highest figure in the published series: £179.9bn. Rule: highest of the 20 periods published here (Year ending March 2007 to Year ending March 2026).

Year ending March 2007 to Year ending March 2026

VAT receipts: Year ending March 2007 to Year ending March 2026LabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour050k100k150k2010201520202025Year ending March 2007: £77.4bn £ million · published 21 August 2026Year ending March 2008: £80.6bn £ million · published 21 August 2026Year ending March 2009: £78.4bn £ million · published 21 August 2026Year ending March 2010: £70.2bn £ million · published 21 August 2026Year ending March 2011: £83.5bn £ million · published 21 August 2026Year ending March 2012: £98.3bn £ million · published 21 August 2026Year ending March 2013: £100.6bn £ million · published 21 August 2026Year ending March 2014: £104.7bn £ million · published 21 August 2026Year ending March 2015: £111.4bn £ million · published 21 August 2026Year ending March 2016: £114.9bn £ million · published 21 August 2026Year ending March 2017: £119.8bn £ million · published 21 August 2026Year ending March 2018: £126.4bn £ million · published 21 August 2026Year ending March 2019: £132.5bn £ million · published 21 August 2026Year ending March 2020: £129.9bn £ million · published 21 August 2026Year ending March 2021: £101.7bn £ million · published 21 August 2026Year ending March 2022: £157.5bn £ million · published 21 August 2026Year ending March 2023: £158bn £ million · published 21 August 2026Year ending March 2024: £168.4bn £ million · published 21 August 2026Year ending March 2025: £171bn £ million · published 21 August 2026Year ending March 2026: £179.9bn £ million · published 21 August 2026
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What this measures

Value Added Tax received by HMRC in the financial year, net of repayments to businesses.

What this doesn’t measure

Who ultimately bore the tax. VAT is collected from businesses and passed on in prices to an extent this figure cannot show.

Important caveat

Receipts are cash received in the period, so they lag the activity being taxed: Self Assessment income tax and capital gains tax arrive up to a year later, and Corporation Tax arrives in instalments. Figures are in cash terms, so a rise partly reflects inflation and a growing economy rather than a heavier tax. Some taxes did not exist in earlier years and their columns are blank rather than zero. HMRC does not collect every tax: council tax, business rates, vehicle excise duty and the devolved Scottish and Welsh taxes are raised elsewhere.

Revision history

No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.

Source

Publisher
HMRC
Publication
HMRC tax and NICs receipts for the UK
Release
HMRC tax and NICs receipts: July 2026, published 21 August 2026
Source file
hmrc.ods
File SHA-256
f5c7955e31e420da5d3d84ffa7fbd248c05f4f2e10d9a3d5fd741caee7efa39f
Retrieved
3 September 2026
Sheet
Receipts_Annually
Table
Table 2
Row
2025 to 2026
Column
Value Added Tax
Cell value
179861
Geography
United Kingdom
Unit
£ million
API
/api/metrics/vat_receipts · /series · /vintages

Government periods

Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.

Labour 2024–£168.4bnYear ending March 2024£179.9bnYear ending March 2026↑ 6.8%
Conservative 2019–2024£132.5bnYear ending March 2019£168.4bnYear ending March 2024↑ 27.0%
Conservative 2017–2019£119.8bnYear ending March 2017£132.5bnYear ending March 2019↑ 10.6%
Conservative 2015–2017£111.4bnYear ending March 2015£119.8bnYear ending March 2017↑ 7.6%
Coalition 2010–2015£70.2bnYear ending March 2010£111.4bnYear ending March 2015↑ 58.7%

Full comparison with chart

Release
HMRC tax and NICs receipts: July 2026 · publication page
Last updated
21 August 2026
Next release expected
Not yet announced (estimated from the usual cadence)