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Four new free checks: energy VAT, the BICS scheme, Simpler Recycling and an industry benchmark

Tim Carbon Recycling24. oktobar 2026.

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On 23 October 2026 Carbon Recycling added four free checks: the VAT on business energy bills, inside the Climate Change Levy check; eligibility for the British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme, whose first application window closes on 30 November 2026; the Simpler Recycling rules for workplaces in England; and an industry carbon benchmark built on ONS figures for 1990 to 2024. None of them needs an account, a name or an email.

Ažurirao tim Carbon Recycling 24. oktobra 2026. Brojke koriste zvanične faktore konverzije vlade Ujedinjenog Kraljevstva i provereni su prema aktuelnim smernicama sa gov.uk.

Each check answers one question a small business is likely to have about its bills, its waste or its emissions, using the government's own rules and figures. Here is what each one does and who it is for.

Energy VAT, inside the Climate Change Levy check

The Climate Change Levy check now also asks what VAT rate your electricity and gas bills show. Business energy normally carries 20% VAT. Under HMRC's VAT Notice 701/19 the reduced rate of 5% applies to very small supplies (averaging no more than 33 kWh of electricity or 145 kWh of gas a day), homes and residential accommodation such as care homes, and a charity's non-business use. From 1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027, qualifying electricity in England, Scotland and Wales is zero rated; Northern Ireland stays at 5%. The check says whether your bills look right and, if you can't reclaim VAT, roughly what an overcharge costs a year. Suppliers can correct VAT errors for up to 4 years. It is mainly useful for charities, care homes and small firms that aren't VAT registered.

British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme

The scheme exempts eligible manufacturers in Great Britain from some policy costs on their electricity. The BICS check asks six questions about one site and tests the four conditions in the GOV.UK guidance: a company registered at Companies House, one of the 84 eligible SIC codes, eligible products made at the site, and at least 33 MWh of grid electricity a year there. It shows the likely exemption band and a rough value on the government's indicative £35 to £40 per MWh. Applications opened on 1 October 2026 and close at 11:59pm on 30 November 2026. The scheme makes the decision; our check links to the government's own checker and application.

Simpler Recycling

Since 31 March 2025 every workplace in England must keep dry recyclables, food waste and general waste apart, with paper and card collected separately unless the collector has assessed in writing that it isn't practicable. Micro-firms with fewer than 10 full-time equivalent employees have until 31 March 2027. The Simpler Recycling check tells you whether the rules already apply to you, or from when, and flags anything in your collections that doesn't match them.

Industry carbon benchmark

The industry carbon benchmark divides your Scope 1 emissions by your gross value added (roughly staff costs plus operating profit plus depreciation) and sets it beside the ONS figure for your industry, across 110 industry groups. Across all UK industries, ONS puts direct emissions at 140 tCO₂e per £ million of value added in 2024, down from 500 tCO₂e in 1990. It is a rough range check, not a score.

Česta pitanja

Are the four checks really free?

Yes. They run on the tools pages with no account, and none of them asks for your name or email. They are guides, not tax, legal or waste advice: your energy supplier decides the VAT and levy on your bills, the scheme decides BICS applications, and the Environment Agency enforces Simpler Recycling.

Does Carbon Recycling apply for BICS or claim VAT back for me?

No. The BICS check points you to the government's own eligibility checker and application. For VAT or levy charged in error, your supplier corrects the bills; the check tells you what to ask for.

Why does the benchmark only use Scope 1?

ONS counts each industry's direct emissions: fuel burned, process emissions and gases such as refrigerants. Electricity an industry buys is counted against power stations, so adding Scope 2 would compare unlike with unlike.

What happens after a result?

Where a check finds you need something we make, the result now names it with its price. For example, the Simpler Recycling check points to the waste log at £9 a month + VAT, and a "yes, register" from the CBAM check points to the CBAM pack at £49 a month + VAT. You don't have to buy anything to use the checks.

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