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Environmental Taxation: What Have We Learnt in the Last 30 Years?

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  • Anil Markandya

    (Basque Centre for Climate Change BC3 and University of Bath)

Abstract

The paper surveys the literature on environmental taxation in the context of the climate change problem. It reviews the use of taxes as instruments of environmental management and notes the strengths and weaknesses of the applications. The performance of taxes relative to permits depends on the presence of uncertainty whose impacts are explored. The paper also reports on simulation studies concerned with double dividend implications of a carbon tax combined with a reduction in other taxes. The models for the EU find that a switch in taxation from labour to carbon/energy would increase employment, reduce carbon emissions and increase GDP.

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  • Anil Markandya, 2009. "Environmental Taxation: What Have We Learnt in the Last 30 Years?," Rivista di Politica Economica, SIPI Spa, vol. 99(3), pages 11-58, JULY-SEPT.
    • Handle: RePEc:rpo:ripoec:v:99:y:2009:i:3:p:11-58
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    1. Olga Kiuila & Anil Markandya & Milan Ščasný, 2019. "Taxing air pollutants and carbon individually or jointly: results from a CGE model enriched by an emission abatement sector," Economic Systems Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(1), pages 21-43, January.
    2. Kiula, Olga & Markandya, Anil & Ščasný, Milan & Menkyna Tsuchimoto, Fusako, 2014. "The Economic and Environmental Effects of Taxing Air Pollutants and CO2: Lessons from a Study of the Czech Republic," MPRA Paper 66599, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised Oct 2015.

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    Keywords

    taxation; environment; double dividend; carbon taxes;
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    JEL classification:

    • H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
    • H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy

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