The boiler tax exposes the truth about heat pumps
The window tax, tried out in Britain in 1696. The beard tax that was introduced by Peter the Great of Russia in the 1700s. Or the salt tax, which the French only finally abolished in 1945. There have been some bizarre levies imposed by governments over the centuries. When the future economics textbooks are written, however, one point seems certain. The UK’s boiler tax of 2024 will be on the list. It is a genuinely terrible idea – and MPs are quite right to revolt against it.