Government Shifts Hydrogen Tax Burden From Households to Gas Shipping Companies

Government Shifts Hydrogen Tax Burden From Households to Gas Shipping Companies
A tanker heads out to the channel in Rochester, England, ahead of the first gas shipment of LNG from Australia to Europe in more than half a decade, on Aug 22, 2022. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
Owen Evans
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Ministers have scrapped the consumer “hydrogen levy” and have instead vowed to tax gas shipping companies instead, under the government’s net zero plans.

On Thursday, the government rolled back on using a household tax to pay for hydrogen production, instead shifting it to the gas shipping industry.

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