Germany’s top court rules country’s nuclear tax illegal

‘Energy utilities in Germany may soon get billions of euro in refunds, following the verdict of the country’s Constitutional Court that a nuclear fuel tax imposed on them was illegal.
The Karlsruhe-based court said on Wednesday the tax was “formally unconstitutional and void,” adding the government did not have the legal competence to claim it.
In December another court ruled that shutting down all the country’s nuclear plants violated their rights.
The nuclear fuel tax was imposed between 2011 and 2016, following a decision by Chancellor Angela Merkel for Germany to abandon nuclear power by 2022. The policy was drawn up after the Fukushima disaster in Japan.’
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