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Recycling: Taxation

Commons · Question 57183 · Tabled 3 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 11 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Joe Robertson

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Extended Producer Responsibility is a tax.

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 11 Jun 2025

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...