Homeowners face being hit with a ‘boiler tax’ of around £120 per boiler as manufacturers attempt to offset the cost of the fines imposed by Government to coercively push the heat pump rollout. The Telegraph has the story.
Worcester Bosch has announced the price of all its gas boilers will increase by £120 in the new year, while Vaillant is also preparing to increase its prices by £95.
The Government aims to install 600,000 heat pumps a year from 2028, but Worcester Bosch said it had “no option” but to raise the price of boilers as the U.K. market “does not have the scale” to meet Government targets.
It said it took the decision following the implementation of new rules designed to incentivise heat pump installations which will result in companies who undershoot Government-mandated quotes being fined.
Worcester Bosch said “to cover the costs of these fines and remain in business” it had “no option but to raise the prices of the boilers we sell to meet what is in effect a boiler tax”.
As part of its Net Zero drive to reduce carbon emissions, the Government will introduce its “Clean Heat Market Mechanism” (CHMM) in January 2024.
The price increases are being implemented to offset government plans to fine manufacturers for failing to meet sales quotas for heat pumps from next year.
The scheme aims to incentivise manufacturers to sell more heat pumps by requiring that 4% of all gas boiler sales are matched in volume with heat pump sales.
New builds, which are required by law to have a heat pump from 2025, are exempt from the scheme.
However, industry forecasts suggest around half of heat pumps set to be installed next year will be in newly built houses, and will therefore not count towards the sales quota.
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It’s only claimed that these rules are meant to incentivise heat pump installations. When the outcome is another indirect tax because heat pump installation targets simply cannot be met, it’s a safe bet that that’s exactly the intended outcome: another indirect tax. People in government aren’t stupid and when they set impossible targets for something, they certainly know that they’re impossible.
Yes, even with the tax, gas boilers remain cheaper to buy and operate than heat pumps, so it’s just another ‘sin tax’
It is clearly very safe to assume that further taxes will be levied in the next few years on behalf of saving the planet. And us of course.
Definitely — with the elite siphoning off sufficient millions as emoluments and commissions.
From theecoexperts.co.uk [sic] website:
This was all too predictable. It will happen to ICE cars next. Not enough demand for electric cars and the fines will kick in. If the government keeps this up it will soon get to the point where even the sleepiest of the sheeple will have to wake up.
I’m still patiently waiting for someone of meaning to assemble that army. There’s a growing sense of anger – I hear and feel that as each day passes. All we need is to find each other, realise how huge our numbers are, and stand up. Then… Game Over.
Spot on.Thats my feeling as well .I can only currently offer a sharpened pitch fork when what is needed are AR15s and ammo by the containerload .
The powers at large need to remember Ceausescu .That did not work out well !!
Don’t wait for someone else. Everyone needs to stop being a pawn and start being a player and that doesn’t necessarily require violence.
Wrong. Completely wrong. Very few people have the character and charisma to enact change. If you think that lots of people grumbling and doing lots of little tiny things will ignite the monumental change that is needed then you’re grossly mistaken. And, yes, it will require violence. Real change always does. Even the slow drip, drip, drip of feminist change has been achieved through violence – physical to start with, then psychological. The latter takes decades and we do not have the luxury of time.
I wasn’t thinking that.
Please explain what you meant then.
The British don’t revolt, look how they all meekly accepted tyranny and forced injections during Covid. I suspect the only thing that would cause a revolt is if Football was banned.
I expect that if you look carefully at the upcoming elections uniparty manifestos that tucked away on page 16 at the bottom this ban will be in there .
They cannot have large groups of indigenous white men enjoying themselves and singing rude songs .. Think how that will cause harrassment , alarm and distress to more recent arrivals on these once fair shores ..lol
As with ULEZ, it just confirms the lie of the whole man-made Global Warming bull, that you can just go on producing CO2 by paying more.
“Ambitious Target” ???————You mean “ABSURD TARGET”? —-This will cost the country 2 Trillion by 2050. This involves getting rid of 21 million gas boilers that provide the best central heating system we ever had, and the unimaginable clutter of lifted carpets, floorboards, new radiators, re-decoration and huge expense for WHAT? —–So we can pretend to save the planet while emissions in the developing world continue to rise at an astronomical rate. Energy demand in the world is rising by one United Kingdom’s worth every single year and renewables cannot even cover that growth never mind the fossil fuels we are already using and expanding in the world. To carry out this absurdity 250,000 homes each year will have to be disconnected from gas. They will all have to pay thousands for having the pleasure of being colder and poorer as the running costs of heat pumps is much higher than gas central heating therefore standard of living will fall, since energy is the most important commodity and directly correlates to prosperity. ——–So what will be the effect on global temperature of all of this clutter? —–An Undetectable NOTHING.—–But anyone who still believes all of this eco socialism is about warming and temperatures and storms and floods needs their head looked. ———Once people start to feel this in their wallet and in their ability to stay warm in their own house there will surely be mass revolt. I am afraid pretending to save planets does not come cheap and the phony conservatives will be out of power by then and it is likely the even more CO2 paranoid Labour Party that will have to face that anger. ——And anger like we have not seen in this country.—–PS Get a few jumpers from Santa as you are going to need them
The real agenda for those that survive the depopulation measures resides in…
“You will own Nothing and be happy.”
Suck it up.
I hope you go on other platforms to expose this fraud. It is fine us all on here realising what is going on, but the masses are not reading the Daily Sceptic everyday. ——Go to other places and tear strips of all of this phony planet saving eco socialist crap, as often as you can.
It will be the same with cars, when dealers struggle to sell their milk floats the cost of the fines will be added to the normal cars.
Whilst, yes, heat pumps can heat your living space, it is not a simple matter of every domestic dwelling having its own heat pump. In many situations, flats, maisonettes, compact town houses etc. there would need to be a switch to a district/community heating scheme. It is not practical to have one heat pump per dwelling in such circumstances.
The size of heat pump needed for some older and larger houses will mean the need to switch from a single to a three phase electric supply. The cost of this could be very high and in some situations the local electric supply system will not be able to deliver a three phase supply.
TPTB airily disregard all these practicalities and think this can all just be done overnight. If indeed we could all switch overnight to heat pumps, I rather think this would trigger a collapse in the electrical; supply system!
“TPTB …. think this can all just be done overnight.”
I cannot believe they think that. Either it’s part of the plan or they know it won’t affect them so they simply don’t care.
I’ve said this before, heat pumps don’t work in the UK climate, and they are unaffordable for the average person. In winter, they effectively become immersion heaters, there is no energy gain from the environment. They need servicing and maintenance, and the complexity is such that the average heating engineer will not have a clue. You need an acre of ground for ground source, or a borehole (that’ll be £5000), and the air source are ‘kin noisy carbuncles on the outside of yer hoose. There were some early adopters in the remote parts of Scotland, who are now poorer and still cold. The sensible ones kept a boiler for winter use. The only set ups that are economical are for those that get the old feed in tariffs.
They also need to be switched on all day and are not going to do the same job as gas central heating. —–But as we are finding out (or some of us are) everything GREEN is worse but costs more. —A fine recipe for impoverishment, and that is the whole idea, since at UN level it is deemed the west has become too wealthy and is using more than its fair share of fossil fuels.
If they really wanted us transition to all electric they would have gone all in on nuclear years ago. Hardly a word about that these days. Expensive but at least it would be reliable.
The U.K has to be now one of the most expensive places in the world to live, but ranking in the lowest places in the Western world for services, quality of service both in the Public and Private sector.
The Government having wasted billions with its Lockdowns and Covid policies now is extorting money from the General public through taxes and then through these pathetic new targets on industry to reach a pathetic idealised goal they once again have agreed to reach with people outside of this country.
Cars, heating equipment, what next I wonder? Perhaps a tax on Farmers for producing too much meat and vegetables in order to drive us into fake meat and processed chemical products produced by billionaires.
How is it that Italy, Spain, Portugal are able to provide a better standard of living, lower taxes, lower food costs, eating out costs, local council rates combined with superior health service and education than this overtaxed island of ours?
How is this going to work? Are companies already obliged to tell govt how many gas boilers they are fitting (I suspect not), will they be obliged in the future (privacy issues, surely) and who will audit the accuracy of that data? How will the fines be levied against the companies (not the consumer) and how paid? I’m highly suspicious of the whole sh*tshow given the speed with which the companies have caved – did anyone in the industry make any sort of case against it? Argue for a delay at least, like the car industry? Who are getting backhanders to implement this? Reeks of crony corruption in my book.