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...