{"id":173501,"date":"2025-10-01T19:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/173501\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T19:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:29:07","slug":"shoppers-face-1-6-billion-price-hike-thanks-to-red-eds-net-zero-tax-guido-fawkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/173501\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoppers Face \u00a31.6 Billion Price Hike Thanks to Red Ed&#8217;s Net Zero Tax \u2013 Guido Fawkes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brits face a whopping \u00a31.6 billion price hike on everyday goods thanks to Ed Miliband\u2019s new \u2018Net Zero\u2019 tax, according to the British Retail Consortium.\u00a0The policy, the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) scheme, kicks in this week. It forces food and drink producers to cover the cost of packaging disposal \u2013 a bill of around \u00a32 billion. Unsurprisingly, retail bosses say 80% of that will be passed on to consumers\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Opie of the BRC warned: \u201cThis is a multibillion-pound levy being paid by consumers during a cost-of-living crisis. They\u2019ll ask: what are we getting for higher prices?\u201d, while Sean Murphy of glass firm Encirc said: \u201cThis tax will hit everyone \u2013 in the supermarkets, pubs and glass factories that create thousands of jobs.\u201d Net zero-sum game\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brits face a whopping \u00a31.6 billion price hike on everyday goods thanks to Ed Miliband\u2019s new \u2018Net Zero\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,9610,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-173501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ed-miliband","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}