Avocado Roundup is a quick morning review of top tax, legal, and climate news stories. It’s written by humans.
- France’s air transport industry is fighting a government plan to hit the sector with a new tax to pay for “less polluting” forms of travel. Air transport is already paying an enormous amount of taxes and license fees, the head of the national aviation federation said in a recent interview. (Europe 1)
- In the UK, there’s no sympathy for well-off Brits hit by France’s tax hike on secondary residences. (Express)
- The US state of New Jersey is hiking its gas tax by about 1 cent per gallon starting Oct. 1. (NBC Philadelphia)
- Alabama cut its sales tax on food groceries, to 3%. (Associated Press)
- A paper by a Harvard University professor argues that the US shouldn’t wait to tax the Metaverse. (Be(In)Crypto)
- The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales named former PwC partner Peter Wyman to start a three-year term as its new board chairman on Oct. 1. (ICAEW.com)
