Environmental Audit Committee - Sixth Report
Budget 2011 and environmental taxes

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Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 29 June 2011.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 Introduction

Our inquiry

2 Principles of environmental taxation

Increasing the proportion of environmental taxes

Definition of environmental taxes

Setting the tax rate—raising revenue or promoting environmental change

Complexity and fairness

Evaluation

Natural capital

Strategy

3 Transport taxes

Motoring taxes

Aviation taxes

4 The Carbon Floor Price

The impact on competitiveness

Nuclear power

5 The 'Plan for Growth'

Green economy

Green Investment Bank update

6 Conclusion

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of printed written evidence

List of additional written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and written evidence

27 April 2011

18 May 2011

Written evidence

 Additional written evidence (unprinted)

 

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Prepared 7 July 2011