This paper reviews the use of tax preferences to achieve environmental policy objectives. Tax preferences involve using the tax system to adjust relative prices with a view to influencing producer or consumer behaviour in favour of goods or services that are considered to be environmentally...

Introduction : a bird's-eye view of environmental taxation / Janet E. Milne -- The curious origins of the major U.S. tax incentives for oil and gas producers / George K. Yin -- Problems, policies, and politics of taxing energy in the U.S. / Michael Graetz -- The tax treatment of coal / Roberta...

"Tax expenditures are a major source of support for energy related activities in the federal budget exceeding direct budget support for energy by a factor of nearly six. Focusing on the policy goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and petroleum consumption, I find these tax expenditures...