{
  "id": 5605013,
  "title": "Windfall Profits Taxes in Europe, 2026",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/windfall-profits-taxes-in-europe-2026",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-04T08:40:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tax Foundation",
    "slug": "tax-foundation",
    "url": "https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/eu/windfall-profits-taxes-europe/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "As energy prices have declined, European countries have switched the focus of their windfall profits taxes—a one-time tax levied on a company or industry when economic conditions result in large, unexpected profits—from energy providers to the banking and financial sector.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}