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Environmental Tax Reform and Government Expenditure

Environmental and Resource Economics, 1999
In a simple model of production with an imported polluting resource and involuntary unemployment we consider the effects of energy taxes, holding the real wage constant, under differing levels of government expenditure and externalities. Simulations reveal conflict between the goals of net welfare, employment and profitability over much of the relevant
Shane Bonetti, Felix FitzRoy
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Environmental Tax Reform in Western Balkan Countries

2023
This chapter's goal is to provide a comprehensive description of the environmental tax reform that has been implemented in Western Balkan nations and to examine how it has been carried out. The analysis of the environmental tax's effectiveness and its contribution to the promotion of green initiatives is another goal of the chapter. Since environmental
Enriko Ceko, Edmira Cakrani
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Environmental tax reform: The Swedish experience

European Environment, 1994
AbstractIn the 1980s the Swedish tax system was in severe trouble. With large segments of the population paying 80% marginal tax rates it became a priority issue for government to reduce tax levels on income but without incurring too large a budget deficit.
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The Distributional Effects of Environmental Tax Reform

1998
In recent years there has been increased debate about the potential for shifting the incidence of the tax system away from a variety of economic goods (i.e. employment, investment, etc...) and towards environmental bads (i.e. pollution emissions, resource extraction, etc ...).
Johnstone, Nick, Alavalapati, Janaki R.R., Johnstone, Nick, Alavalapati, Janaki R.R.   +3 more
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Environmental tax reform and double dividend evidence

2009
The increasing attention to environmental damage and the problem of climate changes have led many studies to concentrate on environmental taxation as an incentive-based instrument of environmental policy. Focusing on the relationship among environmental, labour market policies and institutional sectors, this paper aims to investigate the economic ...
CIASCHINI, Maurizio, PRETAROLI, ROSITA, SEVERINI, FRANCESCA, SOCCI, CLAUDIO   +3 more
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Environmental tax reform in the Czech Republic

2001
Environmental tax reform in the form as it is understood today represents such a change of the tax system, where the tax burden on labour (which is relatively high not only in the Czech Republic, but in other countries as well) is shifted towards those commodities with a significantly negative influence on the environment (represented by the group of ...
Thomas Chmelik, Jirina Jilkova
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Environmental Tax Reform In Europe: Energy Tax Rates And Competitiveness

2008
Abstract In earlier work,3 we made an initial assessment of the implications for competitiveness of environmental taxes, including those that had been implemented as part of an environmental tax reform (ETR), which we define as an increase in environmental taxes which is accompanied by a corresponding reduction in other taxes, such that ...
Paul Ekins1, Stefan Speck2
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Environmental Tax Reform and Growth: Income Tax Cuts or Profits Tax Reduction

Environmental and Resource Economics, 2010
This study investigates how recycling revenues, which are generated by environmental taxes, affect growth through different types of tax cuts. A growth model with creative destruction (Aghion and Howitt Econometrica 60(2):323–351,1992, Aghion and Howitt The economics of growth, 2009) is modified to include the production of final output as a source of ...
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Design of Environmental Tax Reforms in Europe

2009
Abstract This chapter provides an overview of carbon‐energy taxation introduced under environmental tax reforms in Europe. First a broad overview of the relative shares of taxes on energy, transport, and pollution is presented. This overview treats developments in EU‐15 as well as in the ten new member states and shows that tax‐reform ...
Stefan Speck, Jirina Jilkova
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Environmental Taxes and Fiscal Reform

2012
Laura Castellucci, Anil Markandya
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