To tax or not to tax?

In order to encourage recycling, the government has recently commenced plans to charge people a £50 tax if they throw away too much rubbish.

However, according to Labour this is a ‘negative incentive’ rather than a tax; “This is not akin to a tax. Its technically a tax but…it does not behave like a tax” said Joan Ruddock, the waste and recycling minister.

Guess that’ll just be another stealth tax then?