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Germany is aiming to found a global “climate club” taxation scheme designed to force countries worldwide to adopt a hardcore green agenda.

The White House has been told to investigate whether Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer broke the US’ immigration rules.

Policing minister Kit Malthouse denied that Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak’s political career was doomed after it emerged that his Indian wife benefits from “non-domicile” tax status

The green agenda-fueled Conservative party has begun calling for tariffs to be levied against high-carbon goods entering the UK.

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports,” White House Council of Economic Advisers member Jared Bernstein responded to a question on whether the minimum tax proposal in President Joe Biden’s budget is a first step towards further tax increases

Britain’s government is preparing to incinerate $11.4 billion of PPE after it was discovered large amounts are defective.

MPs are set to receive a £2,200 pay rise that will raise their salary to £84,144 a year, as Brits face a national insurance increase.

Tax incentives put in place by the UK Conservative party to push people towards green motoring is expected to burn an £8bn-shaped hole in the public finances should new charges not be introduced, according to a new report.

Despite calling himself a ‘tax-cutting’ Conservative Boris Johnson has announced that he will plow ahead with massive tax hikes as living costs soar across the UK.

British Members of Parliament (MPs) are due a £2,000 pay rise on the same day they may be hiking taxes for working Britons.

Poland´s Prime Minister said starting in December the government will cut tax on fuels and energy to counter inflation.

Britain’s supposedly “libertarian” prime minister is reportedly considering hitting consumers with a charge every time they use disposable paper coffee cups and wooden cutlery.

Millions of British taxpayers are being clobbered with a tax rise — against the governing Conservative party’s own promises.

President Joe Biden continued pressing for higher taxes Tuesday, even though Senate Republicans called it a “red line” in their infrastructure deal.

President Joe Biden issued a statement Saturday fully reversing his tax and entitlement ultimatum on the bipartisan infrastructure deal.

The UK is experiencing strong growth after the 2020 lockdown collapse, but the end of furlough and inflation on the horizon are concerning.

Britain has seen its budget deficit rise during the coronavirus pandemic to its highest level since 1946, official figures showed Friday.

A half-billion pound programme of temporary hospitals is ending, despite many of the sites never having treated a single corona patient.

American taxpayers will provide the neediest 20 percent of their countrymen a 20 percent increase in income upon the passage and signature of the “American Rescue Plan,” according to a study by the Urban Policy Tax Center.

Britain’s chancellor wants to “wean us off the magic money tree” after nearly a year of unprecedented spending in response to the coronavirus lockdown, a policy which saw government borrowing rise by a near-record £34 billion in December alone.

Tax enforcement agents have been writing to cancer patients and people left penniless by the pandemic and associated lockdowns threatening to seize their possessions and sell them, because the economic impact of coronavirus means the NHS needs more money. 

German banking giant Deutsche Bank is calling for a “privilege tax” to be imposed on people who work from home, to erase their savings from not having to commute or pay for food on their lunch breaks. 

GENEVA (AP) – A Swiss region that has billed itself as a hub for high-tech finance said Thursday that it plans to accept cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ether for tax payments starting next year.

Environmental groups pressured states to resume taxing single-use plastic bags, claiming reusable bags will not spread COVID-19.

The PM is being lobbied by colleagues to not ramp up taxation to pay off the huge extra spending incurred for coronavirus aid. 

The UK govt will attempt to mitigate the economic, social, and business impacts of the coronavirus outbreak with tax cuts and new spending.

Mission Impossible star Simon Pegg has signed an open letter demanding that multi-millionaires like himself should pay more tax.

Bibles are exempt from President Trump’s upcoming tariff increases on Chinese goods following book publishers’ warnings of a “Bible tax.”

Poland is abolishing income tax for millions of young people, in order to discourage “brain drain” and encourage young emigrants who have abandoned the country for other EU member-states under the Free Movement migration regime to come home. 

President Donald Trump threatened France and French President Emanuel Macron after the latter signed a new digital tax on American tech companies. “We will announce a substantial reciprocal action on Macron’s foolishness shortly,” Trump wrote.

The BBC will send “outreach” officers to over-75s to remind them that they will now have to pay to watch television, after it scrapped free licences for senior citizens.

Local council bosses are being paid up to half a million pounds a year, salaries more than three times that of the Prime Minister, according to the annual town hall rich list.

The French Government considering bold tax cuts as a means to address the concerns driving the Yellow Vest protest movement, which is now in its 21st week.

The Trump administration has ensured that tax return checks will go out despite an ongoing partial government shutdown. 

French President Emmanuel Macron used his New Year’s televised address to lash out at the populist Yellow Vest protestors who have taken to the streets through November and December to oppose his globalist policies, accusing them of anti-Semitism and other defects.

The state of California has abandoned its plan to begin taxing text messages in January, which would have allegedly been used to fund cell phone access for the poor.