Submitted on Friday 5th August 2022
Rejected on Monday 8th August 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Force the energy companies to pay the cost of living payments
The huge rise in energy costs has been caused by a lack of planning and corporate greed by the big energy providers. Their record profits should pay for the problem they caused.
Energy companies have been making record profits while charging customers more. They use the excuse of the war in Ukraine and this is coupled with very poor planning for the exit of the pandemic restrictions. It is completely immoral for the cost of living payments to be covered by general taxation. These companies profits will not cover the tax burden as they will move money around to avoid tax. They should be forced to pay for a problem they caused and exploited for profits.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We understand you're concerned about cost of living support, and want energy companies to pay towards these. However it's not clear how what you're proposing is different from the Energy Profits Levy the Government announced in May. You can read more about this Levy here: www.gov.uk/government/publications/cost-of-living-support/energy-profits-levy-factsheet-26-may-2022.
You could have a petition calling for a levy on energy companies to pay for cost of living support, so long as it was clear how this levy was different to the one already announced.
You may like to sign this petition which calls for a related action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/607983
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