Meanings of emission tax in English

The EU's new airline pollution tax is a new riff on that theme.

While we don't favor any new taxes, it seems that a noise pollution tax increase should be proposed.

If the sluggish prewar economy and holomorphic chaos doesn't get us, frankly the city's flat pollution tax will.

Cremations of the singular kind were killed off in the same way - pollution taxes and health and safety 'issues' soon making them prohibitively expensive.

THE introduction of " pollution taxes" on products that pollute the environment has been called for in a report issued by a Dail Committee.

But this is part of what we call a green tax shift.

If it's packaged as a green tax it has got to do something green.

It also had to cut prices in the US to offset lower green tax credits.

Air passenger duty A planned April rise in this " green tax" was delayed to 2012.

Fuel duty The Labour government brought in a fuel duty escalator as a green tax during the 1990s.

The think tank said China should reform its environmental tax system.

Minister for the Environment John Gormley said yesterday that an environmental tax on petrol would be introduced.

It might also be OK if the money taken from drivers' pockets was justifiable as an environmental tax, but it can't be.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is studying whether to introduce a new environmental tax, vice environment minister Pan Yue said on Wednesday.

If the CRC cannot be made more workable, Osborne said it would be scrapped and replaced with "an alternative environmental tax".

At its heart will be the government's " ecological tax reform" which proposes to fund cuts in income tax with increases in energy taxes.