European countries have increased their use of environmental tax instruments by designing new tax bases.
This paper sheds light on the distributive consequences of environmental tax policies when households are heterogeneous.
While billed as an environmental tax, the revenue goes directly into the Treasury, critics say.
In order to deal with this, we need an environmental tax system.
The government places an environmental tax on all producers of plastic bottles.
Environmental tax credits and incentives are also being proposed, like tax breaks for waste incineration systems.
Is concern about global competitiveness holding back environmental tax reform, or is that a straw man?
So environmental tax policy can be a way of improving competitiveness?
Is anyone in the business community trying to put forth a sound environmental tax policy?
Environmental tax reform (ETR) is widely accepted to be a policy with desirable environmental, and other economic effects.
The environmental tax we focus on is pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) charges for mixed waste collection.
