It’s official: EPR’s £1.6bn green tax on industry is no joke

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Treasury’s watchdog has reclassified EPR as a tax on business as it ups the cost estimate by a cool £200m. Is it all a cruel April Fools’ joke?

The government is going to be on a sticky wicket next time it tries to deny the £1.6bn hit of extended producer responsibility is not simply a whopping fresh tax on industry.

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