Land use consultation and ecosystems service markets update
The ATT has responded to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ (DEFRA) consultation on a land use framework.
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Property taxation and land use policy
The CIOT recently responded to two government consultations: the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ (DEFRA) consultation on a land use framework; and the Department for Energy
Plastic packaging tax: consultation on chemical recycling and adoption of a mass balance approach
Currently, recycled plastic sourced from a mechanical reclamation route can be used to evidence that plastic packaging meets the 30% plastic packaging tax (PPT) relief threshold test.
Addressing carbon leakage risk to support decarbonisation
The measures under consideration in the consultation (tinyurl.com/3jhd4vn5) include:
Taxation of environmental land management and ecosystem service markets
The ATT and CIOT have responded to the HMRC/HMT consultation the ‘Taxation of environmental land management and ecosystem service markets’.
CIOT and ATT’s Joint Climate Change Working Group
The remit of the Climate Change Working Group (CCWG) is to consider the implications of climate change and net zero for UK tax policy. This includes:
VAT energy saving materials relief: CIOT response to call for evidence
Budget 2023 announced a call for evidence to consider options to reform the VAT relief for the installation of energy saving materials in the UK.
Extension of the Climate Change Agreement scheme
The CIOT submitted a response (see www.tax.org.uk/ref1109) to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s consultation: ‘Climate Change Agreements:
Natural capital consultation
On 15 March, the government published a consultation on the ‘Taxation of environmental land management and ecosystem service markets’.
Net zero initiatives: carbon credits and VAT
Following on from our March 2023 article, ‘Tax and the Woodland and Peatland Codes’ (tinyurl.com/54rdynd5) in which the ATT’s Natural Capital Working Group