Clampdown ropes 1,800 new companies into paying EPR packaging tax

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Defra minister Emma Hardy said tougher action by the Environment Agency, alongside improved data capture by Defra and PackUK, was improving the accuracy of future fee calculations

A step up in enforcement action has roped nearly 1,800 additional producers into the net of the government’s extended producer responsibility packaging tax, it has revealed.

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