Protest over £150k children’s hospice VAT bill
Protest over £150k children’s hospice VAT bill
CAMPAIGNERS are stepping up a bid to change the law after Welsh children’s hospice T Hafan was landed with a huge £150,000 VAT bill.
The charity’s tax has more than doubled in the past 12 months after the hospice, which opened in 1999 in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, built an extension. It offers care for hundreds of desperately ill children plus support for their families, and says the £150,000 could be better spent on that care and support.
The voluntary sector has been campaigning for a change in the law for more than 20 years, and is hoping to persuade MPs to back their bid to reform VAT rules. They want the Government to offer grants to refund VAT as a means of getting round the complex rules.
T Hafan’s bill rose from its usual £70,000 to £150,000 this year.
“That’s an awful lot of collection boxes,’ said Roger Page, T Hafan’s director of finance.
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