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Section 92 Rates of climate change levy until 1 April 2021

(1)

Paragraph 42 of Schedule 6 to FA 2000 (climate change levy: amount payable by way of levy) is amended as follows.

(2)

In sub-paragraph (1), for the table substitute—

Taxable commodity suppliedRate at which levy payable if supply is not a reduced-rate supply
Electricity£0.00811 per kilowatt hour
Gas supplied by a gas utility or any gas supplied in a gaseous state that is of a kind supplied by a gas utility£0.00406 per kilowatt hour
Any petroleum gas, or other gaseous hydrocarbon, supplied in a liquid state£0.02175 per kilogram
Any other taxable commodity£0.03174 per kilogram
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(3)

In sub-paragraph (1)—

(a)

in paragraph (ba) (reduced-rate supplies of electricity), for “7” substitute “ 8 ”,

(b)

after that paragraph insert—

(bb)

if the supply is a reduced-rate of supply of any petroleum gas, or other gaseous hydrocarbon, supplied in a liquid state, 23 per cent of the amount that would be payable if the supply were a supply to which paragraph (a) applies;

, and
(c)

in paragraph (c) (other reduced-rate supplies), for “22” substitute “ 19 ”.

(4)

In consequence of the amendment made by subsection (3), in the Notes to paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the Climate Change Levy (General) Regulations 2001, for the definition of “r” substitute—

r= 0.92 in the case of electricity; 0.77 in the case of any petroleum gas, or other gaseous hydrocarbon, supplied in a liquid state; and 0.81 in any other case.

(5)

The amendments made by this section have effect in relation to supplies treated as taking place on or after 1 April 2020.