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Taxing vehicles, fuels, and road use : opportunities for improving transport tax practice
Van Dender, Kurt - 2019
This paper discusses the main external costs related to road transport and the design of taxes to manage them. It provides an overview of evolving tax practice in the European Union and the United States and identifies opportunities for better alignment of transport taxes with external costs....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012135999
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Are environmental tax policies beneficial? : learning from programme evaluation studies
Teusch, Jonas; Braathen, Nils Axel - 2019
This paper provides a concrete example of how policy analysts can use empirical programme evaluation studies to perform ex-post assessments of environmentally related tax policies. A number of studies credibly identify causal effects of environmentally related tax policies, but do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103049
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The use of revenues from carbon pricing
Marten, Melanie; Van Dender, Kurt - 2019
The paper collects comprehensive and detailed data on what 40 OECD and G20 economies do with the revenues from carbon taxes, emissions trading systems, and excise taxes on energy use. It notes that constraints – which can take the form of political commitments or legal earmarks – on revenue...
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Carbon pricing and competitiveness : are they at odds?
Ellis, Jane; Nachtigall, Daniel; Venmans, Frank - 2019
, turnover, value added, employment, profits, productivity, and innovation. When statistically significant results have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180332
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Improving economic efficiency and climate mitigation outcomes through international co-ordination on carbon pricing
Nachtigall, Daniel - 2019
Contributions of the Paris Agreement and which has the potential to support greater levels of climate action and ambition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103043
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An assessment of the social costs and benefits of vehicle tax reform in Ireland
Ryan, Lisa; Petrov, Ivan; Kelly, Andrew; Guo, Yulu; La … - 2019
This paper presents the results of an ex post evaluation of the impacts of a vehicle tax reform in Ireland, by carrying out a full social cost benefit analysis of a vehicle tax reform that began in Ireland in 2008 and shows that whilst successful in improving the fuel economy of new passenger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180342
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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013
families to education, health and other social services must continue to improve, in particular via further changes to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231018
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Dealing with climate change : policies and measures in IEA member countries
International Energy Agency - Paris : IEA Publ. - Nachgewiesen 2000 - 2002; damit Ersch. eingest.
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Reforms for a cleaner, healthier environment in China
Hill, Sam - 2013
China’s exceptional economic expansion has led to rising energy demand and pollution as well as other environmental … pressures. Strong efforts by the government have moderated emissions of some types of air and water pollution from high levels … but others, including greenhouse gas emissions, continue to rise. Poor air and water quality threaten human health, create …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767753
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Improving taxes and transfers in Australia
Hemmings, Philip J.; Tuske, Annamaria - 2015
Getting tax and transfer systems to efficiently deliver sufficient revenues to achieve macroeconomic targets, address goals in re-distribution and social welfare, encourage employment, accommodate business-competitiveness concerns and incorporate environmental issues is difficult. In Australia,...
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