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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10358
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/taxation

New EU energy tax planned for 2013

Brussels, 13/04/2011 (Agence Europe) - A “greener” energy tax that is more beneficial for clean energy and will stimulate growth and jobs by making consumers pay the tax burden that is currently on labour. These are the aims pursued by the European Commission and EU Energy Commissioner Algirdas Šemeta, who unveiled a draft revision of a 2003 energy tax directive on 13 April (see EUROPE 10355). The aim is for the new law to come into force in 2013. It would have an 11-year transition...

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