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Booze, chocolate, meat, flights: What will Labour tax next?

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Pitiful growth forecasts will tempt Reeves to impose sin taxes on everything from a can of coke to a holiday, says James Price I’ve previously called the Chancellor Reeves the Roundhead in these pages, in honour of her fun-killing ways. But she’s not the first Chancellor to tax having a good time.  A tax designed to disincentivise behaviour, or at least recoup the perceived costs of that behaviour, is known as a Pigouvian tax, and they are used …
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Booze, chocolate, meat, flights: What will Labour tax next?

Pitiful growth forecasts will tempt Reeves to impose sin taxes on everything from a can of coke to a holiday, says James Price I’ve previously called the Chancellor Reeves the Roundhead in these pages, in honour of her fun-killing ways. But she’s not the first Chancellor to tax having a good time.  A tax designed to disincentivise behaviour, or at least recoup the perceived costs of that behaviour, is known as a Pigouvian tax, and they are used …

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Meat tax, tofu tyranny

The climate change committee wants us to eat a lot less meat, but Andrew Livingston isn’t confident the public will stomach the idea Soy growing in a cultivated field in Brazil Last week, the Climate Change Committee* (CCC) announced that the answer to all our problems was to ‘eat less meat’. Yes – it’s time to dust out the rabbit food to save the planet!The CCC, if you didn’t know, had met for their seventh carbon budget, and are now calling fo…

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