The Testing For All mission is to make testing for COVID-19 more assessable and affordable. To this end we introduced home antibody testing at \u00a339.00 when the prevailing market rate was \u00a3130.00 and Day 2 and Day 8 testing for \u00a3105.oo when the lowest alternative was \u00a3170.00 and the average price was \u00a3220.00. The supply chain that undertakes private PCR testing has become much more efficient over the last 3 months, with the cost per test falling dramatically, however testing in the UK remains expensive compared to other countries. There are a few reasons for this:<\/p>\n
On 7th December 2020 the council of the EU greenlighted member states to exempt or reduce the rate of VAT on covid testing and vaccines<\/a>. This is to continue until 21 December 2022. Most member states including France, Spain and Germany have adopted this principle.<\/p>\n The correct outcome would be for all UK testing services to be “zero rated” for VAT until any form of mandatory private testing is over. This would enable test providers such as Testing For All to reclaim VAT on our inputs (cost of manufacturing testing kits, shipping, the laboratory tests etc), yet not charge VAT to the consumer. This would reduce the cost of our Day 2 PCR test from \u00a348.00 to \u00a340.00, which would be an impressive price point for the highest global standard of laboratory based test that you could take from the comfort of your own home.<\/p>\n\u00a0What is the correct outcome?<\/h2>\n