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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
David Bond

Pressure grows on Jeremy Hunt to extend windfall tax

Campaigners and opposition politicians have called on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to hit the UK’s energy giants harder after new figures showed the Treasury has so far netted £2.8bn from an Energy Profits Levy.

Prime Minister and former Chancellor Rishi Sunak introduced the 25 per cent levy in May to raise billions of pounds to help struggling households with the cost of living crisis.

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