The so-called 'green electricity privilege' provided under § 39 EEG 2012, whereby electricity suppliers benefitted from EEG surcharge reductions if a certain proportion of their electricity supply was sourced from directly marketed RES, has also been removed from the new EEG.
But there will be no surcharge -- or service reduction -- on buses operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which expects to spend an extra $9.2 million on diesel fuel this year, said Albert W. O'Leary, an authority spokesman.
Citing lower oil and natural gas prices, the Long Island Power Authority announced its first cut in its fuel surcharge last Wednesday, a 7.6percentt reduction.
It's a one-and-a-half-point reduction in the surcharge, easy to figure out what it means to a family in a certain income group, and easy to figure out -- this is -- and by the way, I've been saying it for months, since the mayor proposed it, as you know.
The company said the increase would be partly offset by a 2percentt reduction in the fuel surcharge.
Mr. Green, who did not speak about taxes at the forum, favors delaying the reduction of the tax surcharge, said his spokesman, Joe DePlasco.
Note: the EEG 2014 abolished the so-called green electricity privilege, which offered electricity suppliers a reduction in the EEG surcharge if a certain percentage of their electricity supply was sourced directly from marketed RES.
Private financing would be provided through a dedicated limited company taking a surcharge on tickets, equal to the reduction in fare induced by the shorter line; within twenty years the debt would be covered.
As revealed by Guardian Australia on Tuesday the radical plan involves lowering federal income tax by a certain percentage, allowing the states to levy an income tax surcharge at the same rate as that reduction, and reducing commonwealth grants to the states by the amount raised.
