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Wed 11 Nov 2009Carbon tax may cause fuel smuggling
CARBON TAX on domestic solid fuel could open up a huge price difference between the Republic and Northern Ireland, leading to widespread smuggling of illegal high-sulphur coal across the Border, according to lobby group the Solid Fuel Trade Group.
The group, which represents coal importers, has also warned that the proposed tax “may frustrate efforts to tackle fuel poverty by driving already poor households deeper into debt and plunging ‘new’ households into fuel poverty”.
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