I cannot see how a
windfall tax will help the average family over the coming winter.
Shadow chancellor George Osborne, interviewed earlier, said he would not rule out a
windfall tax on bankers' bonuses, which are expected to hit pounds 6bn this year.
Unions and 100 Labour MPs are campaigning for a
windfall tax after energy firms recorded profits of around pounds 3 billion.
Recent sharp increases in fuel bills, together with large profits announced by energy firms, have stirred public outcry in Britain, triggering calls for a
windfall tax on such profits.
Why not a one-off
windfall tax on those enormous bank profits to secure funding for pensions justice?
Mr Brown plans to implement the
windfall tax in a "welfare to work" budget weeks after Labour comes to power.
His previous loyalty to David Cameron and the Conservatives makes his call for a
windfall tax on the excess profits of rip-off energy firms all the more damaging to the party he led.
amp;nbsp;Namibia is looking to introduce a minerals
windfall tax to enable the state to benefit more from the country's vast mineral resources, Mines and Energy minister Isak Katali said on Tuesday.
In particular, the imposition of a new
windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas producers to fund a measly 1p cut to petrol duty was ill thought out and potentially hugely damaging.
ALISTA T IR Darling has warned that the betteroff would have to shoulder more of the cost of economic recovery amid reports he was ready to impose a
windfall tax on bankers' bonuses.
ALISTAIR Darling warned yesterday that the better-off would have to shoulder more of the cost of economic recovery amid reports he was ready to impose a
windfall tax on bankers' bonuses.
Introduced in 2006, the
windfall tax covers all oil produced in China and sold for more than $40 a barrel.
