Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 57183

Recycling: Taxation

Tabled: 3 June 2025
Answered: 11 June 2025

Question

Joe Robertson

ConservativeIsle 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 Creagh
The 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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