Submitted on Monday 3rd January 2022
Rejected on Monday 10th January 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Remove the EU imposed 5% VAT from energy bills.
In 1993 the EU imposed 5% VAT on energy bills.
The UK is no longer subject to EU legislation so thus tax should be removed from UK energy bills.
The EU imposed the 5% minimun VAT on household energy This makes gas and electricity much more expensive than necessary. We are no longer members of the EU so the VAT should be removed especially in light of the projected hike in energy costs from our foreign suppliers. The least wealthy are hit the hardest. The poorest households spend three times more of their income on household energy bills than the richest households spend.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
You may wish to sign these petitions which call very similar actions:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/594293
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/597470
In case it's helpful, you might like to know that EU does not 'impose' VAT on energy, it simply requires member states to set VAT on energy bills at a minimum of 5%. You can find out more about this here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/59897048
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