The standard rate of Landfill Tax increased from £40 per tonne to £48 per tonne, on 1 April 2010.
The Government announced several years ago that it intended to keep raising the rate of Landfill Tax, and although it is now well past its original target of £35 per tonne, the rise seems set to continue. The latest published estimate of total receipts for 2009 shows that yield is now actually falling as the twin downward pressures of the recession and the cost of sending waste to landfill have begun to outweigh the increasing rates, so an announcement of another increase for next year seems likely.
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