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VAT – HMRC update VAT Food manual

20 Feb 2023

HMRC have updated their manual VAT Food.

The updates are as follows:

  • “Items benefiting from the relief: What is food?: Food and medicine: foods for a person made weak or disabled by illness or injury” – “Invalid” removed from the title of page replaced with “foods for a person made weak or disabled by illness or injury”;
  • “Excepted items: beverages: specialist drinks” – the word “Invalid” removed from the page replaced with “person made weak or disabled by illness or injury”; and
  • “Excepted items: beverages: Item 4A: sports drink” – reference to “invalid” replaced with a “person made weak or disabled by illness”.

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