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Check what classifies as plastic, recycled plastic and packaging components, and if the packaging you manufacture or import is subject to the tax.
Find out what records and accounts you must keep to support the information that you submit on your Plastic Packaging Tax return.
Rules for shipping waste plastic.
Budget 2018 announced that the government will introduce a world-leading new tax on produced or imported plastic packaging. Subject to consultation, this will apply to all plastic packaging that doesn’t include at least 30% recycled content.
How to work out the weight of plastic packaging components and each material used to make them, to check if you must register for Plastic Packaging Tax and include them on your return.
This consultation seeks views on the potential adoption of a mass balance approach for chemically recycled plastic in the Plastic Packaging Tax.
If you have manufactured or imported 10 or more tonnes of plastic packaging in the last 12 months, you may need to register for the tax.
Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.
Find out how to decide what checks to make if you manufacture, import or buy plastic packaging from another business, and examples of checks you can carry out.
Seeking views on the design of the tax on plastic packaging announced at Budget 2018.
You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.
Get help to classify plastics for import and export.
Some of the most polluting single-use plastic items banned from 1 October
This tax information and impact note is about the new plastic packaging tax.
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