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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landfill-tax-amendment-regulations-2015/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landfill-tax-amendment-regulations-2015/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/744",
  "legislation_title": "The Landfill Tax (Amendment) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landfill-tax-amendment-regulations-2015",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations, which come into force on 1st April 2015, amend regulation 31(3) of the Landfill Tax Regulations 1996 (S.I.1996/1527) (“LFTR 1996”).\nRegulation 31(3) of LFTR 1996 prescribes the maximum amount of credit which a landfill site operator may claim against its landfill tax liability, (during a specified period of time, referred to in LFTR 1996 as a “contribution year”), in respect of sums paid by it to certain bodies concerned with the environment. These Regulations vary the maximum amount of credit which a landfill site operator may claim; from 5.1% of its landfill tax liability in a contribution year to 5.7%.The changes made by these Regulations have effect in respect of contribution years beginning on or after 1st April 2015.\nA Tax Information and Impact Note has not been prepared for this instrument as it contains no substantive changes to tax policy.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/744/note",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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