Rachel Reeves’s “insane” plan to raise landfill tax could cause new-build prices to rise by £24,000, critics claim.
Industry leaders believe a 36-fold uplift to the levy will send construction costs soaring, causing developers to either stop building homes or demand higher prices from buyers.
Is it true? Dunno – looks a bit steep to me.
Is it useful? Sure. A good indication that none of these tossers ever look at second order effects.
Landfill Taxes have done immense harm down the years.
Originally an EU Directive, gold plated by our moronic officials : it is the direct cause of fortnightly bin collections, massive increase in fly tipping and the proliferation of ‘recycling’ which all ends up in the same trucks and eventually clogs the rivers of Asia.
Reforms first job is to scrap the Landfill Tax and execute its architects.
Latimer and Ridley style.
I see no evidence that our politiscum even consider first order effects.
“Landfill Taxes have done immense harm down the years.”
This can be said about just about every harebrained green planet saving idea. The kind of plans that are dreamed up by people who have no clue how anything works. Often you only need to apply basic primary school arithmetic to demonstrate that the latest plan can’t possibly work but they go off and do it anyway. Of course, lining the pockets of a host of grifters isn’t really a second order effect but the whole point.
Great, that means even more f*cking fly tipping in my gateways, hedgerows and ditches. And in my fields if I leave the gates unlocked for more than a few minutes.
Hmm, Reeves and landfill. It does get me thinking…
They’ve even started flytipping in Highgate Wood.
Highgate, FFS. Posh North London.
This new tax will improve matters, won’t it?
Stony ground,
There’s a utopian idealism about it all. Like greens who want rail but then protest knocking down a wood to get it, or this thing of running rural trains which are actually worse for the environment than taxis.
Jim, recipe from my late great-uncle who had a farm and sort-of the same problem with apple thieves…
Double-barrel shotgun. With the cartridges loaded with coarse salt.
Doesn’t kill them. Makes them wish they could.
Maybe they do think of the second order effects. Labour hates the countryside so making it ugly and polluted with rubbish is the goal.
Speaking of rubbish in the countryside, presumably the operator has to get planning permission (change of use) for a solar or wind farm. But do they then pay business rates? Two issues. One, increased council tax revenue if so, and if so the council is motivated to grant permission. Two, a future government could whack taxes for spiv-farmers through the roof to discourage further development of these monstrosities.
From gov.uk
“Offshore wind farms are not liable for Business Rates, only the electrical intakes at landfall will have a liability; however onshore wind farms are liable.”
Not a major cost advantage to offshore, but even with this and higher strike prices and higher wind averages (questionable as onshore wind is illegal on high hilltops), easy planning, it’s still not profitable.
Maybe they do think of the second order effects. Labour hates the countryside so making it ugly and polluted with rubbish is the goal.
I listened to a talk on the US constitution recently and he made the point that the Founding Fathers had mind that the Senate should protect states from bullying by groups of other states, which is why each state has equal representation. They had in mind the more populace urban states dictating social and other policies to less populated rural states.
We could have done with similar protection when Blair allowed his highly urbanised hard left wing to ride roughshod over rural areas with the Countryside Act which was mostly out of spite.
Do you mean Queens Wood, Norman? Highgate Wood was always bounded by a high solid wood fence at the busy Muswell Hil Road side. Remaining boundaries are the railway & then it’s all housing. Hard to see how to get at it to tip it. It’s Queens Wood’s vulnerable. Both parts of the wood are divided by unfenced Queens Wood Road. Always was a bit of flytipping along there but the council (Haringay) cleared it up. Highgate Wood’s actually City of London turf. Can’t see the Wood Green Politbureau stretching their budget to that now. Too busy catering to the needs of efnics. I imagine Ally Pally’s had its bit as well. About half of it’s get-attable.
Yes, Queen’s Wood, BiS, all along where the cars park. Also copious signs of where the Diversity shit, by the road. Lovely. No doubt it doesn’t occur to the fuckers that they could simply go up to the Woodman pub at the top of the road and use the bogs there, but perhaps their religion prevents them from entering such places. Cunts.