ENVIRONMENT|natural environment|climate · FINANCE|taxation
- tobhach athraithe aeráide Tagairt Faomhadh an téarma seo mar chuid de Thionscadal Lex
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- CCL | climate change levy
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- Sainmhíniú tax on energy - electricity (excluding electricity generated from renewable sources and approved cogeneration (combined heat and power) schemes, but including electricity from nuclear, even though it causes no direct carbon emissions), natural gas as supplied by a gas utility, petroleum and hydrocarbon gas in a liquid state, coal and lignite, coke and semi-coke of coal or lignite, and petroleum coke - delivered to most energy users in the United Kingdom (with the notable exceptions of those in the domestic and transport sectors), introduced on 1 April 2001 under the Finance Act 2000 as part of the UK's Climate Change Programme, with the aim of providing an incentive to increase energy efficiency and to reduce carbon emissions, and forecast to cut annual emissions by 2.5 million tonnes by 2010 Tagairt COM-EN, based on:- HM Revenue & Customs > Excise & Other > Information & Guides > Climate Change Levy - Introduction, http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPortalWebApp/channelsPortalWebApp.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=pageExcise_InfoGuides&propertyType=document&id=HMCE_CL_001174 (21.9.2009) - Wikipedia > Climate Change Levy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Change_Levy (21.9.2009)
- Nóta There have been ongoing calls to replace it with a proper carbon tax.