Three major British airlines have recently flayed the European Commission's proposed air passenger tax. The scheme is a "poor environmental tax' and a wrong way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,
China recently introduced a 5 per cent tax on disposable wooden chopsticks, in a bid to conserve its forests. Millions of trees and bamboo plants are cut every year in China to produce 45 billion
The abstract noun development is firmly a part of the public relations language governments use today. But after a recent ordinance passed by the Orissa government, that levies a forest development tax on minor forest produce, its meaning assumes a di
The Orissa government has slapped a forest development tax on three minor forest produce items tendu leaf, timber and bamboo. Seen as a countermeasure to the March 2001 Orissa High Court order that declared the imposition of state sales tax on tendu ill
In order to generate revenue for its environment agency's projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Japan is mulling over a proposal to impose tax on coal. The proposal seeks to rationalise the
