Zip-Lock Bags Environmental Duty Sars, on 16 July 2012, invited all interested parties to comment - no later than 30 July 2012 - on its proposed amendments to the tariff subheadings in Chapter 39 relating to plastic bags, which currently have application in the Environmental Duties (Schedule No.1 Part 3A to the Customs and Excise Act – the Act). The proposed amendments are to exclude household bags, and in particular zip-lock bags from the payment of the environmental levy with retrospective effect from 09 June 2009.
