China parliament considering to bring ‘smog tax’

Heavily polluted smog returned to haunt China on Friday coinciding with the annual session of the parliament during which legislators plan to propose several measures including “smog tax” to deal with the problem.

As Beijing, the city of over 22 million people, was enveloped by heavily polluted smog, forecast said the annual sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC), starting Saturday and the advisory body Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) which started its session on Thursday will be hit by smog.

Both houses have over 2200 members each attending the meetings expected to last for a fortnight. They have been considering several proposals to curb the levels of smog in China’s top cities.