Tim Harford takes a dig at green taxes
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VAT on gas and electricity too low? Excise duty on petrol and diesel too high? Yes says Tim Harford in his Undercover Economist slot this week. “Green taxes have been fussy and poorly-targeted, by turns too stringent and too lax ... This government – like most governments – likes to use the tax system as a way of expressing its moral views: hooray for pensioners, down with Jeremy Clarkson. Cheap politics for them, less so for the taxpayer.”
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