Tag: windfall
Rachel Reeves on Rishi Sunak’s ‘windfall tax’
The government is "discredited, chaotic and rudderless" in taxing oil and gas firms, and on helping people pay their energy bills, claims Labour. Shad [...]
Cost of living: Government set to U-turn on windfall tax
Ministers had rejected the measure put forward by opposition parties to help tackle rising living costs.
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PMQs: Johnson and Starmer on cost of living and windfall tax
Boris Johnson said the government was "helping people now" when challenged over taxing the high profits of oil and gas firms. Sir Keir Starmer said La [...]
Sir Keir Starmer on windfall tax ‘dither and delay’
The government needs to "get a grip" and bring in a windfall tax that could give households £600 to help pay their bills, says the Labour leader.Sir K [...]
Cost of living: We cannot rule out a windfall tax, says minister
Simon Clarke will not confirm a levy on energy firms to tackle rising costs, but promises pragmatism.
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Ros Atkins on… the windfall tax debate
Why is the government facing growing pressure to announce a windfall tax on oil and gas companies?
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Government windfall tax U-turn inevitable, says Keir Starmer
Boris Johnson does not rule out a tax on the energy giants, as he is accused of dithering by Labour.
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PMQs: Starmer and Johnson on windfall tax on oil firms’ excess profits
The Labour leader wanted to know if Boris Johnson backed his party's plan for a one-off tax on North Sea oil and gas companies to reduce people's ener [...]
Cost of living: Chancellor Rishi Sunak hints again at windfall tax u-turn
Labour, the SNP and the Liberal Democrats have all proposed using a windfall tax on oil and gas companies, whose profits have rocketed as the economy [...]
Chancellor Rishi Sunak on windfall taxes on oil and gas profits
Windfall taxes are "not the simple easy answer" to every problem, the chancellor has told MPs. But Rishi Sunak warned oil and gas firms if they did no [...]
Miliband predicts government will bring in windfall tax on energy firms
A former Labour leader has told the chancellor to "get on with it" and tax the profits of oil and gas firms to help British people pay their bills.Ed [...]
Cost of living: Labour to call vote on windfall tax for oil and gas companies
It is shameful not to raise extra money from oil and gas firms amid the rising cost of living, Ed Miliband says.
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Rishi Sunak on chances of windfall taxes on energy firms
The chancellor has said he is "not naturally attracted" to windfall taxes but he is "pragmatic". Rishi Sunak told the BBC's Faisal Islam that oil and [...]
Rishi Sunak threatens energy firms with windfall tax
The chancellor says he rules nothing out if they don't increase investment in energy projects soon.
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BP profits soar amid calls for a windfall tax
The energy giant said underlying income hit $6.2bn due to 'exceptional oil and gas trading'.
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