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Solar panel tax increases opposed by Eurosceptic Tory MPs
2016-03-18 10:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
E and T: Eurosceptic Conservative MPs are backing Labour moves to block an increase to taxes on solar panels and other energy saving measures. A group of Brexit-supporting Tory MPs, including Bernard Jenkin, Peter Lilley, Nigel Evans, Graham Brady and Jacob Rees-Mogg, have signed up to a Labour amendment which would stop a VAT hike on solar and energy saving measures from five to 20 per cent. The government is raising VAT charged on the clean energy measures, after the European Court of Justice ruled...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical