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Treasury sticks to strict carbon tax
Business Report
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Alternate Current -- Carbon tax is a mistake we don't need
Lake County Record-Bee
was at the birth of our revolution of course and so the very idea of a carbon tax was doomed to be reviled by most citizens. Americans do, however, have the ...

Balancing environment, development needs energy tax: minister
Focus Taiwan News Channel
... and environmental protection lies in the launch of an energy tax, also called carbon tax, Minister without Portfolio Liang Chih-yuan said Tuesday. ...

Carbon can't be stored in limbo
Sydney Morning Herald
... with three difficult choices: "direct action" as proposed by the Coalition; the government's piecemeal legislation and temporary fixes; or a carbon tax. ...

Carbon taxes are not the solution - expert
Legalbrief (subscription)
'Of course, governments everywhere love the idea of a carbon tax - it is a whole new source of revenue. Whole new sources of revenue are quite unnecessary. ...

Stamping out the Internet's footprint
Hamilton Spectator
"Eventually it will happen, it may not be this year, it may be a couple years, but the US will have to pass some sort of cost or tax on carbon, ...

A triumph of politics over policy
Montreal Gazette
And the main alternative, a carbon tax, is in many ways preferable. Now that cap and trade has proved unacceptable, expect a swing back toward carbon taxes ...

Carbon tax for coal
iAfrica.com
The Treasury is considering a proposal to introduce a carbon tax at source, probably of about R100 per ton, according to industry sources. ...