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Old 12 Mar 2012, 18:35 (Ref:3038948)   #1
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Air Ambulances - No-VAT petition

Everyone knows that the Air Ambulance services in the UK can give life-saving aid, by quickly getting to a casualty and evacuating them to hospital, especially in congested city centres and isolated rural places. What everybody may not know is that all UK Air Ambulances are charity run. They depend on donations from the public to keep flying, and it costs about £2500 an hour to keep a helicopter in the air.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is the sea equivalent, in that they too depend on donations to keep the Lifeboat Service going. As long ago as the 1970s, the Lifeboats were given the privilege of having their VAT paid back to them, a concession not made to all charities, so the Air Ambulances do not share in it.

This petition asks the UK Gov to return, in the form of grants to Air Ambulance Service providers, all the future VAT which the Treasury collects from them, so that the Air Ambulance Service is in practice exempt from paying VAT in the same way as the Lifeboat Service.

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/29349

In the past, I've said how cynical I am about these e-petitions, but this is such a good cause that it overcomes any doubt.
Please sign the petition!

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Surely as the Air Ambulance charity is VAT registered, and as a business, they claim the VAT back on the fuel purchased?
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Quote from HMR&C website:

"If you are registered for VAT, you can generally claim back VAT on goods and services you buy, but only if those purchases relate to sales you make that are liable for VAT."

Air Ambulances don't have sales, or customers who they can charge for their services. The emergency and health services are not exempt from VAT.

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