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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9691

27 June 2008
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/taxation
Move towards review of energy taxation - environmental taxation at lowest level for ten years

Brussels, 26/06/2008 (Agence Europe) - Addressing the European Parliament economic affairs committee on Tuesday 24 June, Taxation Commissioner Kovács brought MEPs up to date on European Commission discussions on the review of directive 2003/96/EC governing taxation of energy products. “Our proposal is to split the tax on energy, which is currently based on the energy content, into two parts. One would depend on the energy content, while the other would depend on greenhouse gas emissions,...

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