Climate change: UK not checking if green taxes work - spending watchdog
The UK government is too focused on raising money from green taxes, rather than checking they are actually working, a spending watchdog says.
Taxes aimed at helping the environment raised £34.7bn in 2019, according to the National Audit Office.
But in most cases the tax authorities do not measure whether they are having any impact, the NAO says in a report.
HM Revenue and Customs said the government was fully focused on hitting net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
But the NAO said too little was known about the effect of environmental taxes, and government departments must monitor their impact to help reach climate goals.
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