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Macroeconmic Tendencies Of Environmental Taxes In

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  • Cristea Anca

    (UNIVERSITATEA ECOLOGICA DIN BUCURESTI, Stiinte Economice)

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Reforms of environmental taxes in EU member states began to consolidate a strategic conceptual basis since the early '90s, when it was launched the idea of changing the tax burden from the tax factor of production, work to the environmental factors and use of environmental unfriendly activities and goods. The theoretical support of this view is represented by the corrective taxes Pigou situation justifying the optimal level of activity of producing goods and services from a social perspective, the collection of taxes imposed by the state of polluters, depending on the amount of damage and damage to third parties, the principle of "polluter pays". Despite the green fees start reforms of the EU member countries and their levels are not increased in recent years as a share of GDP. In the EU-27, 2008, revenues from environmental taxes represented a rate of about 2.8% of GDP and 6.1% of total revenues compared to 2.9% and 7.0% record share of GDP in 1999. Effects of environmental taxes on eco-efficiency must be seen not only in terms of their size or budget as income tax to GDP ratio, but also as a positive economic and social impact generated by larger beneficial effects of reducing pollution and preserving the quality natural resources and environmental factors.

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  • Cristea Anca, 2011. "Macroeconmic Tendencies Of Environmental Taxes In," Annals of Faculty of Economics, University of Oradea, Faculty of Economics, vol. 1(2), pages 157-168, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:ora:journl:v:1:y:2011:i:2:p:157-168
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    Keywords

    envoironmental taxes; eco-eficiency; green fees; corrective taxes Pigou;
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    • Q5 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics

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