IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/b/wfo/wstudy/58887.html
   My bibliography  Save this book

EU Taxes as Genuine Own Resource to Finance the EU Budget – Pros, Cons and Sustainability-oriented Criteria to Evaluate Potential Tax Candidates

Author

Listed:
  • Margit Schratzenstaller-Altzinger
  • Alexander Krenek

    (WIFO)

  • Danuše Nerudová
  • Marian Dobranschi

    (Mendel University in Brno)

Abstract

EU taxes play a key role in political and economic discussions about the future of the EU's own resource system, and their desirability can vary accordingly. It is therefore essential to clearly articulate the goals which are to be achieved by the introduction of this new financing tool. This paper provides a critical overview of advantages and disadvantages of EU taxes. Reviewing the conventional fiscal federalism and political economy literature on this topic it can be concluded that there is no obvious (overall) case for funding the EU budget with EU taxes rather than with contributions by member countries which currently make up for the lion's share of EU own resources. There are, however, some specific issues arising from a sustainability perspective, which could be addressed with the introduction of EU taxes. Departing from a comprehensive concept of sustainability, which is based on the economic, the social, the environmental and the cultural and institutional pillar of sustainability, the paper reviews sustainability gaps in taxation in the EU. EU taxes if designed accordingly may be suitable instruments to reduce these sustainability gaps. The paper also develops criteria based on the four dimensions of sustainability that may be used in a next step to evaluate potential candidates for EU taxes.

Suggested Citation

  • Margit Schratzenstaller-Altzinger & Alexander Krenek & Danuše Nerudová & Marian Dobranschi, 2016. "EU Taxes as Genuine Own Resource to Finance the EU Budget – Pros, Cons and Sustainability-oriented Criteria to Evaluate Potential Tax Candidates," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 58887, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:wfo:wstudy:58887
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.wifo.ac.at/wwa/pubid/58887
    File Function: abstract
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Karl Aiginger, 2016. "New Dynamics for Europe: Reaping the Benefits of Socio-ecological Transition – Part I: Synthesis. WWWforEurope Deliverable No. 11," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 58791.
    2. Veronika Solilová & Danuše Nerudová, 2018. "Výnosový potenciál společného konsolidovaného korporátního základu daně v Evropské unii [Revenue Potential of the CCCTB in the European Union]," Politická ekonomie, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2018(1), pages 78-98.
    3. Margit Schratzenstaller-Altzinger & Alexander Krenek, 2016. "Sustainability-oriented EU Taxes:The Example of a European Carbon-based Flight Ticket Tax," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 58888.
    4. Margit Schratzenstaller-Altzinger & Alexander Krenek, 2019. "Tax-based Own Resources to Finance the EU Budget. Potential Revenues, Summary Evaluation from a Sustainability Perspective, and Implementation Aspects," WIFO Working Papers 581, WIFO.
    5. Margit Schratzenstaller-Altzinger, 2020. "Reformbedarf und Reformoptionen für das EU-Budget aus österreichischer Perspektive," WIFO Monatsberichte (monthly reports), WIFO, vol. 93(3), pages 177-191, March.
    6. Kawecka-Wyrzykowska Elżbieta, 2020. "Assessment of the European Commission's proposals for financing the EU budget in 2021–2027," International Journal of Management and Economics, Warsaw School of Economics, Collegium of World Economy, vol. 56(3), pages 193-208, September.
    7. Alexander Krenek & Mark Sommer & Margit Schratzenstaller-Altzinger, 2020. "A WTO-compatible Border Tax Adjustment for the ETS to Finance the EU Budget," WIFO Working Papers 596, WIFO.
    8. Alexander Krenek & Mark Sommer & Margit Schratzenstaller-Altzinger, 2019. "Sustainability-oriented Future EU Funding. A European Border Carbon Adjustment," WIFO Working Papers 587, WIFO.
    9. Margit Schratzenstaller-Altzinger, 2017. "The Next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), its Structure and the Own Resources," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 60722.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wfo:wstudy:58887. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Florian Mayr (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/wifooat.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.