Energy saving instead of windfall tax
Eleven million British homes will be covered in a government backed programme to improve their energy efficiency. In the biggest ever such programme in last forty years, the government claims it is the best way to reduce energy bills instead of a windfall tax. The energy efficiency measures, likely to be
by Jenson Brayshaw September 11th, 2008
TUC calls for a coherent energy policy
Trade unions have called on the government to impose windfall tax on big energy companies to save their consumers from excessive price rise. According to them, government inaction will force the consumers to choose between eating or heating during the coming winter. They criticised the six big energy companies for making
by Tessa Clarke September 10th, 2008
Brown faces party opposition over energy windfall tax issue
Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has been facing extreme pressures to enforce windfall tax on energy companies for saving Britons from the killing fuel price hikes and bills. A YouGov poll of 2000 people, which was conducted last week, was published ...
by Alf Stephens August 25th, 2008
Windfall tax for UK energy firms may prove costly
According to published reports, energy firms have made significant profits from recent oil prices that were unusually high. It seems that UK is preparing for a windfall tax that would redistribute some of those profits to the public. Although in theory ...
by Vicky Booker August 20th, 2008
