Friday 6 June 2014

Pollution-ridden Bangladesh unveils green tax in budget

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Pollution-ridden Bangladesh unveils green tax in budget
Dhaka (AFP) June 05, 2014 - Bangladesh imposed a radical new "green tax" on Thursday to force polluting factories to pay extra levies as it looks to clean up the country's increasingly dirty rivers and air. The environmental tax was announced as part of a $32 billion budget for the 2014-15 fiscal year, which also focused on giant new infrastructure projects such as a metro in the cramped capital Dhaka and a nuclear pow ... more


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