BBCNEWS BBC News at Ten January 5, 2022 22:22:00
Government knows it has got to do something to mitigate that and they looked at some of the options today. abolish the 5% vat on energy fuels, said the labour party today. too blunt, said the government, it means better off households will also benefit. what about taking the green levies, a substantial part of our bill, and defer those? tricky when we have just had a climate summit and those levies are designed to wean our soft fossil fuels. what about merging it into general taxation? the chancellor doesn't want to add to the tax burden because at the same time as the new price cap comes in, ...