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Thursday, 10 May 2012 |
 How a consultation on extending the energy efficiency requirements for larger buildings to those below 1,000m2 became a ‘conservatory tax’
The satirical magazine Private Eye summed it all up. It printed a cartoon of some plutocrats rowing towards an island. The caption read: “We had our conservatory built offshore to avoid paying tax.”
A week earlier, the Daily Mail had used a wet bank holiday to splash across its front page the headline: “Green Tax on Conservatories.”
The page began: “Millions of householders who want to build a conservatory...will be forced to spend hundreds of pounds more on ‘green’ projects. They will not be permitted to carry out home improvements unless they agree to fork out for measures such as loft or wall insulation”.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 10 May 2012 )
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Monday, 27 February 2012 |
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A new campaign to help households reduce their energy bills and make their homes warmer has been launched by ACE and others.
The Energy Bill Revolution Campaign calls on Government to invest the money it receives from carbon taxes into improving the energy efficiency of our homes.
From 2013 Government will receive a huge increase in revenue fom two key carbon taxes - the sale of allowances in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and the new Carbon Floor Price. Research commissioned by the Campaign has calculated these revenues will be on average £4bn a year.
If invested in energy efficiency in the housing stock, this money could remove 9 out of 10 households from fuel poverty, it could produce four times the carbon savings achieved by Green Deal and ECO together and could create between 30,000 and 50,000 direct jobs and up to 200,000 indirect jobs in the wider economy.
Please join the coalition and support the campaign by signing our petition today.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 23 March 2012 )
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