Sentence examples for green tax from inspiring English sources

Moreover, it is a "green" tax.

Extend the "green tax" on fossil fuels, certain Greens pleaded.

In effect, a green tax just became an energy tax.

Mr Walsh added: "The first thing to remember is that it is not a green tax.

Another is to develop cost benefit rules for green tax reforms, when the initial equilibrium is suboptimal.

The Labour government brought in a fuel duty escalator as a green tax during the 1990s.

In the US, Massachusetts was the first state to issue green, tax-exempt municipal bonds in June to fund energy conservation projects, such as improving energy efficiency in state buildings and protecting open spaces.

This is the most anti-green tax imaginable.

Keenest of all, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden now tax emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas.Moreover, green-tax revenues are being recycled in the hope of yielding the double dividend.

They also managed to win some positive coverage for the "green-tax switch" that allowed them to drop a damaging commitment to raising the upper rate of income tax to 50% in favour of environment-friendly taxes.

As chairman of the Green Tax Committee, he designed the carbon tax that was introduced by the French government in January 2014.