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The future of oil heating – watch the debate

...Code for Sustainable Homes, bioliquids being ruled out of the Renewable Heat Incentive(RHI), the possibility of an extra tax and the RHI subsidies. Whilst Riello sees oil working in partnership...

Insight

No easy decisions at Whitegate

...as the gross margin generated between product revenues and feedstock costs. A proportion of this added value is used to cover local taxation and operating costs that flow direct to...

Interview

Crime and punishment

...range of sanctions at our disposal. These range from seizure of assets, civil recovery of taxes evaded to prosecution. Sentencing is a matter for the judiciary; a review of which...

News

Fuel laundering – is enough being done?

...are more likely to spend time in prison if you block a road carrying a union flag, than if you cheat HM Revenue out of millions of pounds of tax....
Pat Murnane Tria Energy

Interview

In profile with Pat Murnane of Tria Energy

...to government what would be the first law you’d press for? No tax on renewable fuels. It’s time to back viable alternatives! If your 20-year-old self saw you now what...

Analysis

Planning for the future: Nextgen skills for the fuels sector

...retrain the workforce. “The UK Government recently announced it will ‘consider whether the current tax system, including the operation of the apprenticeship levy, is doing enough to incentivise businesses to...
Prax Lindsey Oil Refinery

News

Prax Lindsey refinery set to close with no buyer found

...intervening, asking why a major taxpayer liability to HMRC did not trigger earlier action. With the Company having fought off questions until June, Labour ministers have vowed to probe the...
Elizabeth de Jong, CEO of UKPIA, considers hydrogen and CCUS as part of the energy transition.

Opinion

Hydrogen and CCUS: a sector placed to deliver

...and de-industrialisation if UK tax and incentives fail to compete with countries such as the USA and Europe nations. However, if we get it right, then the future of the...

News

Biofuels – an uncertain future

...to be bullish. The market outlook has not been helped by the loss of previous tax breaks on fuel duty and the slow adoption of biofuel targets under RED. Politically,...