Landfill Disposals Tax statistics: April to June 2018

This statistical release presents official statistics for Landfill Disposals Tax.

These initial estimates are provisional. We will revise these estimates in the next statistics publication.

Key points

For material disposed as waste to landfill for the period April to June:

• there were 407 thousand tonnes of authorised disposals, of which 127 thousand tonnes were taxed at the standard rate; 154 thousand tonnes at the lower rate; with the remainder relieved or discounted
• these disposals resulted in £11.7m of tax due, of which £11.3m was from disposals at the standard rate and £0.4m at the lower rate
• 126 thousand tonnes of relieved or discounted material was disposed of, resulting in £0.3m tax relieved

During the period covered in this release, there were 17 authorised landfill site operators covering 23 sites.