UK Green Building Council says council tax incentive could lead to 1.5 million more households undertaking retrofit work. Changing the council tax system to offer discounts to energy efficient homes could incentivize an additional 1.5 million retrofit projects a year, research by the UK Green Building council has found. In a report focused on ways to boost retrofit work, the UKGBC said the government should either lower council tax or stamp duty for more energy efficient homes or introduce an energy efficiency feed-in-tariff in order to boost the retrofit market.

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