German finance minister steps in: ‘Sugar tax on sugar-free beverages makes no sense’
Klingbeil was responding to an internal ministry paper that became public on August 25 which caused controversy.
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Germany plans sugar tax that includes sugar free drinks
Pure milk and 100 per cent fruit juices would remain exempt.
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Robert Amsterdam: “Spain has become a laboratory for tax abuse and institutional decay”
"The level of institutional corruption is unlike anything the European Union should tolerate."
Tusk’s Polish government taxes laptops, smartphones and TVs
Poland’s ruling centre-left government led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk has taken a contested decision to extend the scope of a fee paid by producers and importers…
More taxes on tobacco? The EC needs to leave our personal pleasures alone
The European Commission, under Commissioner for Climate Wopke Hoekstra, is preparing to overhaul the 2011 Tobacco Excise Tax Directive.
UK agency brands migrant centre ‘inhumane’ due to poor Wi-Fi and lack of hair salon
Inspectors from the UK’s Independent Monitoring Board (IMB), a prisons watchdog, have labelled a female migrant detention centre in England "inhumane" and cited…