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Ecological Tax Reform

Aggregates Levy | Budget briefings | Climate Change Levy | Company Car Taxation | Pesticides Tax | Vehicle Excise Duty | Other Ecological Tax Reform briefings

Aggregates Tax

Raw deal?
February 1998
Friends of the Earth's response to the Quarry Products Association (QPA)'s 'A new deal from the aggregates industry', the QPA's response to the case for an aggregates tax.

Budget briefings

In its budget briefings, Friends of the Earth sets out measures the Chancellor can, and should, include in each budget to progress towards a sustainable economy.

Budget 2008 Budget 2007 Budget 2006
Budget 2005 Budget 2004 Budget 2003
Budget 2002 Budget 2001 Budget 2000
Budget 1999 Budget 1998 Budget 1997
Budget 1996

Climate Change Levy

Climate change levy - consultation response
Friends of the Earth's response to HM Customs and Excise's consultation.

The impact on industry of the proposed climate change levy - evidence submission
Friends of the Earth's evidence to the Trade and Industry Committee.

Economic instruments and the business use of energy - consultation response
July 1998
Friends of the Earth's response to the Marshall Task Force's consultation paper.

Company Car Taxation

Company car taxation - consultation response
May 1999 
Friends of the Earth's response to the Government's consultation.

Pesticides Tax

Minimising the environmental impacts of pesticide use - proposals response
June 2000
Friends of the Earth's response to the British Agrochemicals Association's proposals.

Vehicle Excise Duty

Cutting the carbon emissions of road transport
February 2007
This briefing note sets out a case for changes to Vehicle Excise Duty at budget 2007.

Other Ecological Tax Reform briefings

Submission to the Environmental Audit Committee inquiry on the 2007 Pre-Budget Report and Comprehensive Spending Review
Nov 2007  
This submission informs the Environmental Audit Committee inquiry about the views of Friends of the Earth on the 2007 Pre-Budget Report and Comprehensive Spending Review.

Submission to the Select Committee on the Merits of Statutory Instruments - Energy Performance Certificates
June 2007  
This note informs the House of Lords Select Committee on the Merits of Statutory Instruments about the views of Friends of the Earth on Energy Performance Certificates.

Climate change: the "citizen's agenda"
January 2007  
Friends of the Earth welcomed the opportunity to give evidence to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee's inquiry into climate change: the "citizen's agenda". Our response focuses on question 6: "to what extent is 'green taxation' an effective driver of behavioural change?".

Climate change and the Stern review: the implications for HM Treasury policy on tax and the environment
January 2007  
Friends of the Earth's submission to the Treasury Committee Inquiry.

Evidence to Environmental Audit Committee on Pre-Budget 2006
November 2006 
The first part of our evidence covers the Stern Review and the Government’s response to it so far. The rest of our evidence looks at the Committee’s questions on aviation taxation, the Barker Review and companies’ environmental reporting requirements.

Making an energy tax work for business
February 1999 
IPPR, Forum for the Future, Friends of the Earth, Green Alliance, RSPB and WWF's response to the Marshall Task Force's consultation paper 'Economic instruments and the business use of energy'.

The politics of perverse subsidies
July 1998
A Friends of the Earth discussion paper contributing to the debate stimulated by Norman Myers' report 'Perverse subsidies'.

Comprehensive spending review - evidence submission
Friends of the Earth's evidence to the House of Commons' Environmental Audit Committee inquiry on the comprehensive spending review.


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