The Eurosceptic MEP Nigel Farage is expected to get told off by the head of the European Parliament over his tirade last week.

Brown cut some taxes by £2.7bn this year as compensation for the abolition of the 10p rate, But he didn’t cut taxes. He cut some taxes and raised others to be revenue neutral. If we’re to have a fiscal stimulus (which would be the point of the exercise) then he needs to cut some taxes without raising

AFP reports that in a question-time session in the European Parliament yesterday, European Commission President Jose Barroso said he would look at the idea of raising direct EU taxation. Asked if he agreed with Herman Van Rompuy, the new EU President, that there should be EU taxes, he said: "I intend to look at all issues of taxation in the EU, we have to look at this, we have to look at all resou...

So, My Noble Lord Stern said that we can beat climate change at a cost of 1-2% of the economy per year. This should be done by imposing green taxes: Pigou taxes as they are technically called. Green taxes already make up 7 per cent of the Government’s tax take. The government’s tax take is somewhere around

The Prime Minister of Finland speaks out: The overall tax rate will have to rise as well over the longer term. In some areas that can be done without much consultation between the countries. For example, property taxes or inheritance taxes can largely be determined at the national level without adverse economic consequences. But such taxes

Motorists and air passengers face higher “green taxes” under Conservative plans to fund tax breaks for married couples OK, so they’ve at least got part of it right. That if you raise green taxes you should reduce other taxes elsewhere. But the green taxes they’re talking about, fuel duty and Air Passenger Duty, already more than cover

Fifteen large European firms have filed a complaint to the European Commission about hastily-adopted taxes in Hungary which they say threatens their activities in the country taking over the rotating EU Presidency. EurActiv.hu reports from Budapest.

If it's true - and as the article is written by Melissa Kite, one has to check - that David Cameron "has shelved his commitment to green taxes because of rising fuel prices and the economic downturn" then this is the last (and very welcome) piece of the jigsaw to reunite traditionalist small government conservatives with the Cameroons. The idea of raising taxes at all, let alone on something as es...

Many Labour MPs have found the answer - windfall taxes. They are proposing a veritable blizzard of these windfall taxes - one for the oil companies, one for the electricity utilities, and yet another for the banks! It leaves the sane

Margaret Thatcher backed raising new taxes from European countries as part of her campaign to win a greater budget rebate for Britain.