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Ecological Standards and Taxes: Three Years after "Dieselgate"

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  • Svetlana Gercheva

    (University of Economics - Varna)

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The paper draws on the reflections of "Dieselgate" on two important instruments of the environmental regulation – emission standards and taxes from passenger cars. Although the scandal broke out in the USA, it negatively affected the EU automotive industry and its customers. "Dieselgate" compromised also the regulatory framework for environmental protection in the EU-28. Furthermore, the national governments are still missing a large amount of ecologically oriented taxes from motor vehicles due to the widening gap between real and official greenhouse gas emissions from passenger cars. Bulgaria is also negatively affected by "Dieselgate" through the massive imports of cheap diesel cars and their atmospheric pollution. The paper also discusses the obsolete taxes on registration and ownership of passenger cars in this country. It concludes that social and ecological justice are not substitutive, but rather complementary goods in Bulgaria.

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  • Svetlana Gercheva, 2018. "Ecological Standards and Taxes: Three Years after "Dieselgate"," Izvestia Journal of the Union of Scientists - Varna. Economic Sciences Series, Union of Scientists - Varna, Economic Sciences Section, vol. 7(2), pages 55-65, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:vra:journl:v:7:y:2018:i:2:p:55-65
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    1. Svetlana Gercheva, 2020. "The Tax-Based Own Resources and Ecological Sustainability of the EU Budget," Izvestia Journal of the Union of Scientists - Varna. Economic Sciences Series, Union of Scientists - Varna, Economic Sciences Section, vol. 9(2), pages 136-144, August.

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    Keywords

    environmental regulation; ecotax; emission standards; Dieselgate; NOx and CO2 emissions; taxes on passenger cars;
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    JEL classification:

    • H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
    • Q52 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects
    • Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy

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