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EU rules $18 billion Spanish fuel tax illegal

By Washington Examiner
Published February 27, 2014 2:57pm ET
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top court has ruled that a fuel tax applied by Spanish regions to help finance health care is illegal, possibly opening the door to compensation claims totaling millions of euros (dollars).

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