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Australia carbon tax: Abbott prepares repeal bill
2013-10-15 05:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has published draft legislation to repeal the country's carbon tax. The controversial tax, which was introduced under the previous Labor government, imposed a levy on the 300 biggest polluters. Mr Abbott, who said the tax cost jobs and forced energy prices up, said the repeal bill would be the first reviewed under the new parliament. Australia is the developed world's worst polluter per head of population. Mr Abbott said that the draft bill was "designed...
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Leave the Medical Device Tax Alone
2013-10-14 21:51:28| Food - Topix.net
This is exactly the sort of thing that gives Democrats a bad name. In forging a compromise of sorts with the GOP, they are giving into the lobbying by an industry, which is making shit up regarding the impact of a tax increase.
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UK-IOM tax deal 'a momentous step'
2013-10-14 15:35:11| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The signing of a UK-Isle of Man tax information-sharing agreement is a "momentous step forward", George Osborne says.
Australia: Carbon tax double dissolution threat just hot air
2013-10-14 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Environment Minister Greg Hunt, who co-wrote a pro-carbon price university paper titled "A Tax To Make The Polluter Pay", announced today that legislation to repeal the Clean Energy Future Act would be introduced "in week one of the Parliament". In response to questions from journalists, he also refused to rule out the prospect that the Liberal government would take the legislation to a double dissolution election. "It will be our first legislative act", said Mr Hunt to reporters at a parliamentary...
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Rise in council tax court summonses
2013-10-11 10:21:22| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Hundreds of thousands of people have been taken to court in England for non-payment of council tax as a result of the government's benefit changes, the Labour Party says.
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