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<blockquote data-quote="TriciaWs" data-source="post: 2279633" data-attributes="member: 475901"><p>According to the Times, the Department for Transport are proposing a new tax on webshops as someone suggested the extra deliveries cause more pollution.</p><p>Like many other disabled people I rely on online shopping., so this is a tax on disabled people.</p><p>I use Ocado which is a web only shop so will be directly hit with such a tax while shops that do local deliveries would not. Yet the evidence is that overall Ocado is probably less polluting that large supermarkets that blast out air conditioning, heating, lighting, etc, and act as an intermediary stop for anyone shopping online from them. Other 'shops' this is aimed at are Amazon and Ebay based shops. </p><p>I would prefer HMT to sort out their tax affairs instead.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/web-shoppers-face-levy-on-deliveries-to-cut-pollution-j7xm3b3bl" target="_blank">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/web-shoppers-face-levy-on-deliveries-to-cut-pollution-j7xm3b3bl</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TriciaWs, post: 2279633, member: 475901"] According to the Times, the Department for Transport are proposing a new tax on webshops as someone suggested the extra deliveries cause more pollution. Like many other disabled people I rely on online shopping., so this is a tax on disabled people. I use Ocado which is a web only shop so will be directly hit with such a tax while shops that do local deliveries would not. Yet the evidence is that overall Ocado is probably less polluting that large supermarkets that blast out air conditioning, heating, lighting, etc, and act as an intermediary stop for anyone shopping online from them. Other 'shops' this is aimed at are Amazon and Ebay based shops. I would prefer HMT to sort out their tax affairs instead. [URL]https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/web-shoppers-face-levy-on-deliveries-to-cut-pollution-j7xm3b3bl[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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