With UK energy bills continuing to rise due to increasing green and social levies and sticky inflation, the financial burden on households has become increasingly unsustainable and worsening child and fuel poverty.

For the 28.6 million domestic customers across the country — including vulnerable groups such as low-income families, the elderly, and those in care — energy costs are now a major factor driving the cost-of-living crisis.

Currently, domestic energy bills are subject to a 5% VAT rate. This also affects essential services such as hospices, care homes, and mental health care facilities, which are struggling to absorb these rising costs while continuing to provide vital care.

Reducing VAT on domestic-rated energy bills to zero would offer meaningful relief to millions of households and essential institutions providing residential care to our most vulnerable, at a time when it is most needed and could bring 800,000 households out of deep fuel poverty.

We urge the Government to act now — to do the honourable thing and stand with the British people by removing VAT from domestic energy bills.

If you wish to help make a difference, please support this petition by just adding your name and circulate to like-minded contacts.

Real comments from Supporters:

Mags: I am a widow and pensioner who can’t afford to put the heating on. Instead, I sit all evening with a hot water bottle and a fleece blanket. Scrapping VAT on domestic energy bills would make a huge difference.
Beryl: I should be able to keep warm in my old age, not have my health worsen due to the cold. Scrap VAT on domestic energy!
Irvine: I’m glad someone has the courage to speak up for pensioners and less fortunate citizens. As a pensioner, I can’t understand why I’m being charged VAT on my energy bills — it’s simply wrong.
Stephen: There are five of us in my household. I’m a pensioner, and my wife is on disability benefits. After working since the age of 16, it’s disheartening to still struggle with VAT on energy bills.
Lynn: My husband and I are terrified to turn on the heating. We’re bitterly cold. Removing VAT would help us afford to stay warm.
Ann: Being warm is a basic human right, not a luxury. VAT on household energy bills is unjust.