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Going green

22 January 2008 / Paul Webb
Issue: 4142 / Categories: Comment & Analysis , Investments
An ecological frame of mind can save your tax bill. PAUL WEBB explains how

KEY POINTS

  • The background to rewarding green business investment
  • The cost of the climate change levy
  • Enhanced capital allowances for energy-saving investments
  • What qualifying technologies are eligible for relief?
  • Calculating the relief available
  • Should the Government be doing more?

The recent UN conference in Bali on climate change held just after the release of the report by its IPCC agency (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) will leave us in no doubt as to the seriousness of the current state of global warming and what can be done to stop the Earth from overheating.

And this is yet more proof to add to the already mounting evidence from last year's Stern Report that unless we act now by investing 1% of our global gross domestic product global...

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