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Green taxes up but tax breaks remain minimal

Posted by AccountingWEB in Tax on Tue, 02/06/2009 - 13:21

Taxpayers shelled out an additional £1.3bn in green taxes over the last year, but the government increased green tax breaks by just £130m according to research by UHY Hacker Young.

The accounting group argues that with the value of all green tax breaks being just 3.4% of all green taxes, government policy is still geared towards punished polluters rather than rewarding environmentally responsible taxpayers.

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