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Introduce a digital postage stamp to business emails

Submitted by James Galpin on Friday 4th July 2025

Published on Wednesday 30th July 2025

Current status: Closed

Closed: Friday 30th January 2026

Signatures: 18

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boom ~ Busy ~ country ~ Delivering ~ Digital ~ Education ~ Email ~ Energy ~ energy users ~ Essential ~ Generals ~ Generate ~ Global ~ growth ~ Healthcare ~ Homes ~ hospitality ~ Housing ~ model ~ postage stamp ~ Reform ~ Responsible ~ Return ~ Schools ~ sustainability ~ Tax ~ UK growth ~ Unlimited ~ Wages ~ waste ~ Wellbeing

Petition Action

Introduce a digital postage stamp to business emails

Petition Details

Introduce a micro-tax on business emails. This would apply a small charge per email sent. We believe this could help return to more efficient communication, reduce digital waste, and generate revenue for essential public services like housing, healthcare, and education.

Additional Information

We think free, unlimited email causes inefficiency, digital overload, and environmental harm. We think a business email tax would reduce unnecessary messages, improve workplace wellbeing, and cut server energy use and the huge carbon footprint its responsible for. The revenue raised could support new schools, hospitals and homes—funded by waste, not wages, and business efficiency and UK growth will boom. We think our country must lead the way in digital reform to deliver a model for a truly sustainable global future.


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