Finance Act 2000

42(1)The amount payable by way of levy on a taxable supply is—U.K.

(a)if the supply is neither a half-rate supply nor a reduced-rate supply, the amount ascertained from the Table in accordance with sub-paragraph (2);

(b)if the supply is a half-rate supply, 50 per cent. of the amount that would be payable if the supply were neither a half-rate supply nor a reduced-rate supply;

(c)if the supply is a reduced-rate supply, 20 per cent. of the amount that would be payable if the supply were neither a half-rate supply nor a reduced-rate supply.

[F1TABLE
Taxable commodity suppliedRate at which levy payable if supply is not a reduced-rate supply
Electricity£0.00456 per kilowatt hour
Gas supplied by a gas utility or any gas supplied in a gaseous state that is of a kind supplied by a gas utility£0.00159 per kilowatt hour
Any petroleum gas, or other gaseous hydrocarbon, supplied in a liquid state£0.01018 per kilogram
Any other taxable commodity£0.01242 per kilogram]

(2)The levy payable on a fraction of a quantity of a commodity is that fraction of the levy payable on that quantity of the commodity.

Textual Amendments

F1Table in Sch. 6 para. 42(1) substituted (with effect in relation to supplies treated as taking place on or after 1.4.2008) by Finance Act 2007 (c. 11), s. 13