The environment is big news at the moment, and rightly so! We are bombarded daily with news stories, facts and figures telling us all we have to take some responsibility in helping to save the environment. With more and more of us becoming environmentally aware, and making changes to our homes and lifestyles to help reduce our carbon footprint. Then why do the government still insist on applying the 17.5% VAT to energy saving windows.

Many other energy saving products such as solar panels, insulation and draught stripping have a mere 5% VAT applied, so why are Energy Saving windows different?

Your probably saying to yourself "It's only a window? the benefit to the environment is insignificant compared to the pollution caused by cars etc. But you'd be wrong! Look at it this way, if every home in the UK installed C rated windows, or higher, carbon emissions could be reduced by 12.8 million tonnes a year. This is the equivalent to removing 840,000 cars from the UK's roads every year. These are pretty impressive figures, I'm sure you'll agree

Getting Energy saving windows fitted in you home not only helps the environment, but also helps you save money as your heating bills will be dramatically reduced and utility bills fluctuating almost monthly, can you really afford not to consider energy rated windows.

There is currently a petition to government to reduce the VAT on Energy rated windows. If you care about environmental issues you should sign up

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