New 'Skip Tax' will dramatically force up skip hire charges

I have begun to receive correspondence from people concerned about, the Government’s imposition of a “skip tax”.
             
On Friday 18 May, thousands of small businesses in the skip disposal industry, employing 20,000 to 30,000 people, were affected by the changing of the tax rate for the disposal of materials from skips from £2.50 a tonne to £64 a tonne. A typical business with dozens of