A green levy of £170 is to be reimposed next monthon household energy bills to support the development of renewables. The charge was suspended last autumn for two years and the cost shifted on to general taxes. The levy was considered regressive because its cost would fall disproportionately on the less well-off. A time of high inflation and soaring bills is hardly when to impose a net-zero poll tax on households.
Only days ago Grant Shapps, the Energy Secretary, said a proposed £120 levy to fund hydrogen would not go ahead. He told this newspaper: “I don’t want to see people’s household bills unnecessarily bashed by this.” He did not disclose that the Treasury would stop funding the cost of general green schemes from next month.
Voters will question where this money goes. We are told that levies are necessary to achieve net-zero ambitions and underpin infrastructure projects like wind farms. Read more https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2023/06/26/the-levy-on-energy-bills-is-a-net-zero-poll-tax/?fbclid=IwAR2jzoePsMYILz7KL5ycXlRawIBCnPOht5UBJQh5SB1S8URYQqsLcKq68W0
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