Carbon tax on home fuel comes into force

clipped from www.irishtimes.com THE CARBON tax for home heating oil comes into force today, leading to increases of 6 per cent for natural gas and 8.4 per cent in household fuel bills. From today, the levy will apply to kerosene, natural gas, marked gas oil, liquid petroleum gas and fuel oil. The tax was criticised by business and farming groups yesterday on the grounds that it would increase costs, affect competitiveness and lead to job losses. Groups campaigning for elderly people also claimed that it would lead to fuel poverty. Yesterday the group representing small and medium-sized business, Isme, warned that the new tax would undermine competitiveness and called on the Government to reverse the decision. Isme chief executive Mark Fielding said there was no justification in a 6 per cent increase in gas costs. “The very idea of a carbon tax in the current environment is utter madness,” he said.

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IFA: Carbon tax to cost rural Ireland ‘millions’. Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/ifa-carbon-tax-to-cost-rural-ireland-millions-112763.html#ixzz0gOWg5ds5

clipped from www.irishexaminer.com THE carbon tax will cost ruralIreland millions of euro, the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) claimed yesterday. It said that "Strive", the Environmental Protection Agency/Economic and Social Research Institute report published last week, shows the impact of the tax varies from €25 per household per year (inner city) to €275 in some rural areas. Mr Downey said the €330 million that the carbon tax siphons out of the economy will be at the expense of jobs, as companies introduce cuts to meet the bill. "The carbon tax will have a disproportionate negative impact on rural households. The average annual cost of the carbon tax would be 2.6 times greater on rural households compared with households in the cities.

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