Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 57183
Recycling: Taxation
Tabled: 3 June 2025
Answered: 11 June 2025
Question
Joe Robertson
Conservative — Isle of Wight East
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Extended Producer Responsibility is a tax.
Answer
Mary CreaghThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) decides the classification of taxes, while the Office of Budgetary Responsibility (OBR) determines how they are treated in fiscal forecasts. In earlier fiscal events OBR have treated pEPR fees as adjustment to depa...
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