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Exclusive - UK: Diageo calms Unite tax avoidance challenge
2013-03-13 13:43:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Diageo has clarified claims by UK trade union Unite that the drinks giant is not "paying what it is due" in tax in the country.
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Could Waxmans new bill offer fresh hope for a carbon tax?
2013-03-13 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Its been a few years now since Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) led an ambitious but doomed charge to get a carbon-pricing bill through Congress. But in the wake of President Obamas climate-centric State of the Union and inaugural addresses, a growing number of Democratic lawmakers are grinding out bills that would make polluters pay for their greenhouse gas emissions. Last month, Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced plans to introduce a bill...
Lawmakers Release Carbon Emissions Tax Plan
2013-03-13 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Almost exactly four years after unveiling his doomed cap-and-trade proposal to deal with global warming, Representative Henry Waxman, Democrat of California, released a new plan on Tuesday to address climate change and federal budget woes: a tax on carbon emissions. Mr. Waxman, joined by Representative Earl Blumenauer, Democrat of Oregon, and Senators Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Brian Schatz of Hawaii, both Democrats, distributed a relatively simple proposal to impose a fee on greenhouse...
Carbon tax: A win-win for the economy and the environment
2013-03-12 16:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Looking for a way to improve the operation of the economy, lower our dependence on foreign oil, reduce pollution, slow global warming, cut government spending, and decrease the long-term budget deficit? Then you should support a carbon tax, which could help the nation address all these issues simultaneously. A new paper Ive written with Samuel Brown and Fernando Saltiel, Carbon Taxes as Part of the Fiscal Solution, argues the tax would even be a good idea if we didnt have a budget problem. Although...
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AUDIO: Mansion tax is 'coalition fudge'
2013-03-12 10:02:37| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Cathy Jamieson, the shadow economic secretary to the Treasury, and Brandon Lewis, a Conservative local government minister, debate the utility of the mansion tax.
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