Why impose a tax when you can remove a subsidy?

Would it not make more sense to remove the subsidy, and save the taxpayer money, rather than impose yet another tax?

Several previous governments have tried to remove the subsidy but have backed down in the face of widespread public protests and reduced it instead.

Cutting the cost of building to about 15 billion could help to reduce the subsidy contract price to nearer 70 per megawatt-hour.

That would be subject to receiving planning consent in 2019 and getting a subsidy contract from the government in 2020.

Coal units converted to burn gas would be eligible for a type of subsidy contract through the government's capacity market scheme.

Plans for a 2 billion offshore wind farm have been revived after a tribunal ruled that a government subsidy contract that was withdrawn last year should be reinstated.

The government has said that it will award subsidy contracts next year to support the next wave of offshore wind projects.

Polls show about 70 per cent of people want the subsidy scheme to be abandoned.

The higher fees reflected a near trebling in the use of the subsidy scheme for retail banks to 41.4 billion.

The chancellor will keep the overall level of the wage subsidy scheme at 80 per cent up to £2,500 a month.

The findings are likely to fuel fears that the government's €24 billion wage subsidy scheme will not be enough to prevent mass unemployment.

More than 250 proposed solar farms are also likely to be abandoned after the early closure of a subsidy scheme.

He admitted that the first few tidal lagoons would require a substantial subsidy in the form of a guaranteed price for their electricity for the first 30 years.

The development of today's major modern energy industries have all relied on substantial subsidy support.

In a sense, any government tax policy of allowing for deduction of interest expenses but not of dividends, has essentially provided a substantial subsidy to takeovers.

The country has a huge budget deficit and one of its largest commitments has been substantial subsidies paid to make imported fuel cheaper.

The federal government granted substantial subsidies, so that many houses could be restored.

If lenders to the banks had to bear losses, the taxpayer subsidy would evaporate.

That rise, however, was more than accounted for by a 13 million increase to 103 million in its regular taxpayer subsidy.

Very profitable companies are, in effect, receiving a taxpayer subsidy.

They have made 4 billion in excess profits, as well as receiving a 1.7 billion taxpayer subsidy.

Six years ago, when he was trying to unscramble the causes of the financial crisis, he identified an 'implicit taxpayer subsidy' for the banks.

Parliamentarians didn't understand the significance of the proposed wage subsidy for unskilled workers.

The chancellor will keep the overall level of the wage subsidy scheme at 80 per cent up to £2,500 a month.

The findings are likely to fuel fears that the government's €24 billion wage subsidy scheme will not be enough to prevent mass unemployment.

He met officials yesterday to discuss the options, which include cutting the 80 per cent wage subsidy and lowering the £2,500 cap on monthly payments.

Dealing with their aftermath will require a lot more ingenuity than simply throwing money at wage subsidy schemes.