EU to propose aviation fuel tax in green policy push

The European Commission has drafted plans to set an Eu-wide minimum tax rate for polluting aviation fuels, as it seeks to meet more ambitious targets to fight climate change, a document seen by Reuters shows. The European Commission is drafting an overhaul of EU energy taxation, as part of a package of measures it will propose on July 14, to meet a target to reduce EU greenhouse gas emissions by 55 per cent by 2030, from 1990 levels. A draft of the Commission's tax proposal takes aim at aviation, which escapes EU fuel taxes. That exemption "is not coherent with the present climate challenges and policies," the document said.