Purpose-built for UK packaging distributors and food brand owners. Replaces the two spreadsheets you didn't want to maintain anyway.
Two separate UK packaging compliance regimes, two regulators, two cadences - calculated automatically from the same SKU data you only enter once.
Annual or bi-annual fee per tonne by material, modulated by recyclability. Covers all packaging materials. Submitted via your compliance scheme.
Quarterly tax on plastic packaging with under 30% recycled content. £223/t (placeholder, indexed). Submitted to HMRC via Government Gateway.
Import, map and maintain your product list with multi-material breakdowns, recyclability flags and recycled content percentages. Feeds both EPR and PPT.
Always-current DEFRA pEPR rates, modulation factors, producer thresholds, and HMRC PPT rates. With audit trail.
Per-SKU uplift recommendations covering EPR and PPT combined. Branded rate sheets, customer-specific rules. Pass it through cleanly.
HMRC-format export ready to file. Recycled-content scenario modelling. 10-tonne threshold monitoring. Deadline reminders.
What if rates rise 15%? What if you reformulate to 30%+ recycled? See the impact across EPR and PPT together.
Submission-ready exports for your EPR compliance scheme and HMRC PPT returns. Reproducible historical snapshots for audit.
Roles, audit logs, comments on calculations. Built for finance, ops and commercial to work together across both regimes.
Each SKU carries a primary product spec, multi-line material breakdown, recyclability flag, and per-line recycled content percentage. We've designed the data model around what DEFRA actually asks for - not a generic product database.
| Material | % wt | Recycled | Recyclable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fibre composite | 88% | 30% | Yes |
| Plastic - PLA | 12% | 0% | Cert. |
We track DEFRA's pEPR rate schedule, modulation factors, small/large producer thresholds, and the recyclability assessment regime. When anything changes, every active calculation updates - and the snapshot of the old version is preserved.
| Material | Was | Now | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper / board | £207 | £215 | +£8 |
| Plastic | £473 | £485 | +£12 |
| Fibre composite | £437 | £455 | +£18 |
| Steel | £310 | £305 | -£5 |
Most EPR tools stop at “here's your liability.” Packlah goes further: it tells you, per SKU, the recommended uplift on your sell price that covers EPR without distorting your margin. Then it generates a clean rate sheet you can send.
| Scenario | Total fee | Margin hit |
|---|---|---|
| Current | £24,847 | 2.4% |
| +10% rates | £27,332 | 2.6% |
| +25% rates | £31,059 | 3.0% |
| +25% + 40% recycled | £24,201 | 2.3% |
Plastic Packaging Tax shares your SKU catalogue but lands with HMRC, not PackUK. Packlah keeps a running PPT total, produces HMRC-format quarterly returns, and models the recycled-content scenarios that take components below the 30% exemption threshold. One workspace, two regimes.
| Category | Tonnes | PPT |
|---|---|---|
| Plastic placed on market | 12.9 | - |
| Taxable (under 30% recycled) | 9.4 | £2,096 |
| Exempt (30%+ recycled) | 3.5 | £0 |
| Q2 PPT due | £2,096 | |