Is there VAT on charity or fundraising printing?

Q: Is there VAT on charity or fundraising printing?

Some of it. Usually 0% VAT: leaflets, annual reports and company accounts, newsletters, charity appeal letters and donation envelopes. Usually 20% VAT: forms and questionnaires, envelopes, tickets, posters. Depends on the job: letters.

Some of it. It depends on the item, not the occasion, so one job can have both rates on the same invoice.

A charity. Much of this is zero-rated. I am not entirely without feeling.

Printing for a charity or fundraising

Some 0%, some 20%

Here's the usual print for a charity or fundraising. Tap any item to see why it's 0% or 20%.

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Leaflets 0%

Leaflets are zero-rated. A sheet you pick up, read and bin (or one that comes with a product) is exactly what the zero rate is for.

Annual reports and company accounts 0%

Fully printed company accounts and reports are zero-rated.

Newsletters 0%

Newsletters are zero-rated, either as periodicals or as leaflets.

Charity appeal letters and donation envelopes 0%

An HMRC concession zero-rates the printed stationery a charity uses to ask for money: appeal letters (even personalised ones) and the envelopes that go out and come back with them.

Letters ?

A letter personalised with the recipient's name or address is standard-rated. A generic printed letter can be a leaflet.

Forms and questionnaires 20%

Forms are standard-rated. If more than a quarter of it is space to fill in or a bit to tear off and send back, it's a form, not a leaflet.

Envelopes 20%

It's stationery. Things you write on are standard-rated, however nicely printed.

Tickets 20%

Anything that gets you in, gets you money off or has a value of its own is standard-rated.

Posters 20%

Anything made to go on a wall or be displayed is standard-rated. The zero rate is for things you hold and read.