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Yes it could: if the levy applies to all consumption & we redistribute from high emissions (generally wealthy) areas of good housing to low emissions (generally deprived) areas of poor housing.

highly emitting LSOAs (generally those with least deprivation) would raise sufficient levy to retrofit their dwellings within three to five years if an ‘all emissions’ levy were applied

This is not the case in low-emissions LSOAs which tend to be those with the highest deprivation. Here it could take up to 60 years to meet the retrofit costs if the levy were only applied to energy emissions