Car tax recommended by green group
26 Oct 2009, Mario Christodoulou, AccountancyAge
http://www.accountancyage.com/aa/news/1780527/car-tax-recommended-green
A £3,300 new-car levy has been put forward by a government backed think tank, which wants to see double the amount of green tax revenue.
The Green Fiscal Commission has put forward the car tax as part of a £150 billion package which includes a tripling of the fuel duty over the next ten years, The Daily Telegraph reports.
The commission wants to double the number of green tax revenue, from the present 7%.
One author of the report, Paul Elkins, a professor at University College London said there needed to be a change of mindset.
"We’ve had it as a given that energy is cheap, so we have been wasteful. This has to change and the only way to do that is to make the polluters pay,” she said.
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Visitor comments
Misleading headline
I think the headline and summary report are deliberately inflammatory as they imply (without saying) that it's all new taxes.
The report on the radio this morning was clear that the group expected compensating reductions in income tax/business taxes as appropriate - or at least, that if tax increases are needed because of the public sector funding deficit, they wanted the increases to be on green taxes rather than general taxes.
One of the things that makes it hard for such issues to get discussed properly - along with politicians constantly scoring points off each other -is journalists spicing stories up, either by addition or in this case omission.
Posted by: Tim wilkes , 26 Oct 2009 | 00:00