John Manning tax partner and UK head of the environmental tax and regulation network PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP discusses measures put forward in the PBR to help the environment
The Pre-Budget Report (PBR) certainly had a green tint to it with commentary on the environment occupying nearly a quarter of the appropriately coloured green (red) book.
Announcements were balanced between the high ambition of all new houses being 'zero carbon' within ten years and the more mundane increases in taxes on transport with a range of measures in between.
But in the light of the recently published Stern Report on the Economics of Climate Change did the PBR live up to the call for urgent action now to tackle climate change?
Stern's three...
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John Manning tax partner and UK head of the environmental tax and regulation network PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP discusses measures put forward in the PBR to help the environment
The Pre-Budget Report (PBR) certainly had a green tint to it with commentary on the environment occupying nearly a quarter of the appropriately coloured green (red) book.
Announcements were balanced between the high ambition of all new houses being 'zero carbon' within ten years and the more mundane increases in taxes on transport with a range of measures in between.
But in the light of the recently published Stern Report on the Economics of Climate Change did the PBR live up to the call for urgent action now to tackle climate change?
Stern's three...
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