Tax on activities harmful to the environment.
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Examples for "pollution tax"
Examples for "pollution tax"
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The EU's new airline pollution tax is a new riff on that theme.
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While we don't favor any new taxes, it seems that a noise pollution tax increase should be proposed.
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If the sluggish prewar economy and holomorphic chaos doesn't get us, frankly the city's flat pollution tax will.
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Cremations of the singular kind were killed off in the same way - pollution taxes and health and safety 'issues' soon making them prohibitively expensive.
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THE introduction of " pollution taxes" on products that pollute the environment has been called for in a report issued by a Dail Committee.
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But this is part of what we call a green tax shift.
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If it's packaged as a green tax it has got to do something green.
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It also had to cut prices in the US to offset lower green tax credits.
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Air passenger duty A planned April rise in this " green tax" was delayed to 2012.
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Fuel duty The Labour government brought in a fuel duty escalator as a green tax during the 1990s.
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The think tank said China should reform its environmental tax system.
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Minister for the Environment John Gormley said yesterday that an environmental tax on petrol would be introduced.
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It might also be OK if the money taken from drivers' pockets was justifiable as an environmental tax, but it can't be.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China is studying whether to introduce a new environmental tax, vice environment minister Pan Yue said on Wednesday.
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If the CRC cannot be made more workable, Osborne said it would be scrapped and replaced with "an alternative environmental tax".
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The government has banned Chinese airlines from paying a pointless new European emissions tax.
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Mining and climate change Windsor is in favour of action on climate change and an emissions tax specifically.
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The text shows agreement on use of carbon markets and other mechanisms such as emissions taxes, fees, incentives, and reductions in fossil fuel subsidies.
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It would take at least 4-5 years for China to formally launch the emissions tax, Jiang Kejun, a researcher at the ERI, told the paper.
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At its heart will be the government's " ecological tax reform" which proposes to fund cuts in income tax with increases in energy taxes.
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