green tax

Swindon town is campaigning for a 10p tax on plastic bags to work towards a plastic bag free town. The campaigners are encouraging people to sign the petition commenced by Green England.

What are the effects of a tax decrease on "green" products?  This article provides an economic analysis and shows that a green tax can convince the average consumer to choose "green" alternatives over their non-environmental counterparts.  

The Twitter social networking service often kicks off great discussions, including one about carbon footprints and corporate travel between Craig Cmehil and Alan Wood. This has been tidied up as a guest post for greenmonk, to illustrate the great grassroots conversations about economic greening occuring on social networks. It is well worth a read...

In Nottingham, the Council are proposing to tax businesses for their car parking spaces, but is this 'green tax' being used to help expand public transport or is it just another way to get money into the government's coffers?

The Quality of Life Report is generating – perhaps predictably – a typically robust response from the right. Commentators are reaching for their keyboards to condemn detailed policy announcements on green taxes, aviation, energy efficiency, waste and planning, within seconds of the report being leaked last night. But very few are attempting to look at the underlying points made by the report and the message it sends about the future direction of our society.

The UK's Taxpayer Alliance (TA) manages to confuse tactics with outcomes as it calls for an end to green taxes.