- Number of UK businesses registering for VAT and PAYE dropped by over 40,000
- Possible reasons for the drop include COVID fallout, cost of living crises, Brexit, HMRC slow processing, and HMRC fraudulent registrations crackdown
- This is the first drop in registrations since 2011
- Current number of registrations is 2.7 million
- Sole proprietors and small businesses are most likely to deregister
- Transport and storage, IT, and the sciences were the most negatively affected trade sectors
Source: deeksvat.co.uk
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