Plastic Packaging Tax Update & Webinars

The UK Government will introduce a new Plastics Packaging Tax (PPT) on the 1 April 2022. After this time, tax at the rate of £200 per tonne will have to be paid on any plastic packaging that falls within the tax rules. The tax applies when the plastic packaging component does not contain a minimum of 30% recycled content.

If you manufacture or import packaging, you will need to take steps to establish your status within the tax. Companies that manufacture or import more than 10 tonnes of plastic in 12 months will have to register and keep additional records to calculate and pay the tax if they are the company performing the last substantial modification before filling, packing and labelling.

Our partner, BPIF is providing support through updates, roundtables, webinars, a helpdesk and guidance, which will be shared here.

If you have any questions or queries, please email the Plastic Packaging Tax Helpdesk at [email protected] 

HMRC Webinars

HMRC have announced two more webinars for February. These are:

Introduction to PPT - 18 & 25 February

PPT: Admin & Technical Aspects - 22 & 28 February

They have also offered to conduct a webinar for BPIF and BOSS members and this should take place around the 7 March.

There will be an introduction from HMRC, together with a staged question and answer session to enable HMRC to give more definitive answers to our questions.

If you have any questions you would like to submit to the HMRC webinar, please email: [email protected] 

More information will be here  when it becomes available.