The chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has announced a "one-off" £4.5m increase in Environment Agency funding to tackle waste crime in the 2015 Budget. The Budget documents revealed a rise in the landfill tax contribution cap paid by landfill operators to the Landfill Communities Fund (LCF) from 5.1 percent to 5.7 percent. The potential value of the LCF for 2015-16 is £59.4m of claimable landfill tax credit. This equates to a change of about £4.2m, which will be used to fund a "one-off" increase in Environment Agency funding to address waste crime.
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