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    Even with Brexit, higher tobacco taxes across the Channel means mayhem on UK streets, writes David Campbell Bannerman.

    The EU is looking to ramp up taxes on tobacco, electronic waste, e-cigarettes and carbon emissions
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    Pitiful growth forecasts will tempt Reeves to impose sin taxes on everything from a can of coke to a holiday, says James Price I’ve previously called the Chancellor Reeves the Roundhead in these pages, in honour of her fun-killing ways. But she’s not the first Chancellor to tax having a good time.  A tax designed [...]

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