Public charging isn’t a supply of electricity either, it’s a supply of charging services, hence 20% VAT.
Pretty much every ‘hard up’ sector in the country is calling for 5% VAT at the moment, it’s actually a nonsense.
They’d be better off scrapping the 5% rate entirely and getting by rid of almost everything out of the 0% rate, including biscuits (or is it cakes, I can’t remember
) to stop all the nonsense campaigning. Lower VAT rates tend to benefit the wealthy more anyway, particularly on services like EV charging.
VAT is an easy target but it isn’t the root cause.
Charge point operators need to come up with better pricing models if they want people to use their services more, how about some off peak pricing where energy is cheaper, more abundant and less carbon intensive. Local residents might actually use those AC chargers in the middle of town if they were not 50p/kwh 24/7.
The government needs to sort out the ludicrous electricity ‘market’.
Those two things will solve the root cause Mr Instavolt.
Pretty much every ‘hard up’ sector in the country is calling for 5% VAT at the moment, it’s actually a nonsense.
They’d be better off scrapping the 5% rate entirely and getting by rid of almost everything out of the 0% rate, including biscuits (or is it cakes, I can’t remember
) to stop all the nonsense campaigning. Lower VAT rates tend to benefit the wealthy more anyway, particularly on services like EV charging. VAT is an easy target but it isn’t the root cause.
Charge point operators need to come up with better pricing models if they want people to use their services more, how about some off peak pricing where energy is cheaper, more abundant and less carbon intensive. Local residents might actually use those AC chargers in the middle of town if they were not 50p/kwh 24/7.
The government needs to sort out the ludicrous electricity ‘market’.
Those two things will solve the root cause Mr Instavolt.
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