Net zero ‘grocery tax’ to push up shopping bills by £1.4bn

http://telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/12/21/net-zero-grocery-tax-push-up-shopping-bills-by-1-billion/

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  1. ***From The Telegraph:***

    A new “grocery tax” designed to achieve the Government’s net zero targets will push up household shopping bills by up to £1.4 billion a year, The Telegraph can reveal.

    Ministers have been accused of “quietly” passing legislation which will see as much as £56 added to household costs annually, according to the Government’s calculations.

    The green levy – which will see retailers and manufacturers charged [per tonne of packaging materials they use](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/01/tesco-sainsburys-burn-plastic-customers-recycling/) – is aimed at helping the UK to reduce waste and meet its net zero targets.

    Under the scheme, they will be charged more for using [plastic wrapping compared to paper or cardboard](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/features/food-packaging-tricks/).

    But critics have warned that the measure will “push up food costs for every family” while at the same time imposing red tape on business.

    Families have already been hit by rising food prices in recent years, while [inflation rose for the second month in a row](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/12/18/ftse-100-markets-latest-news-uk-inflation-cpi-budget-tax/) last week in the wake of Rachel Reeves’s “Budget for Growth”.

    According to the impact assessment of the incoming policy, published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the new tax will lead to “retail sales increases of around £1.4 billion” in the first year.

    **Read more here:** [telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/12/21/net-zero-grocery-tax-push-up-shopping-bills-by-1-billion/](http://telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/12/21/net-zero-grocery-tax-push-up-shopping-bills-by-1-billion/)

  2. For once, I wish uk news papers would stick to telling us what has happened instead of trying to predict, with the minimal amount of statistical skills and maximum amount of bias, what they think *will* happen.  

  3. Wait until they hear the predictions for the “do nothing and deal with the consequences” tax

  8. It’s a reduce plastic and packaging tax. Torygraph writers got too many microplastics in the brain.

  9. The UKs carbon emissions are such a tiny part of the global total, if we sank into the sea tonight it would make NO difference to global carbon emissions. Yet here we are on our tiny insignificant island being robbed blind in “green taxes” to try and solve the rest of the worlds carbon emission problems.

  10. Fkn torygraph scaremongering again. ‘grocery tax’. Did they just come up with it? And is it a nickname or a bullshit since its in ‘? Fuck off.

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