The Government announced in the March 2021 Budget that recreational boaters can continue to use red diesel beyond April 2022.

Last year, HM Treasury ran a Consultation to review the impact of a future requirement for leisure boaters to use white diesel from April 2022 alongside commercial vessels who would continue to use red diesel. This would obviously be impractical and I’m relieved to see common sense has prevailed and the present system of a proportional tax on red diesel will continue.