The picture for the rise in VAT back to 17.5% is not so clear. Non-food retail sales volumes did fall sharply in January 2010, but so did food sales volumes and a significant part of this decline would have been due to the exceptionally heavy snowfall during that month, which makes it harder to isolate the VAT effect.his requires a simulation exercise using a large macro-econometric model â in this case, we use the National Institute Global Econometric Model (NiGEM).Table 4.1 below summarises the results of simulating the effect of a permanent VAT rise from 17.5% to 20% for UK consumer spending, GDP and employment.
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