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Environmental taxes and economic growth: Evidence from panel causality tests
Abdullah, Sabah; Morley, Bruce - In: Energy Economics 42 (2014) C, pp. 27-33
The aim of this study is to determine the causal relationship between environmental taxes and economic growth, using different measures of environmental taxes with GDP as well as adjusted net savings. A panel of European countries and a separate panel of OECD countries are used from 1995 to 2006...
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The use of a feebate system to reduce emissions from power plants
Smith, James D - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
The patchwork of laws designed to control air pollution from U.S. power plants has been criticized from a variety of different perspectives. Business groups argue that the laws are too complex and burdensome to industry. Environmentalists maintain that power plant emissions need to be further...
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Environmentally Related Energy Taxes in Argentina, Bolivia and Uruguay
Navajas, Fernando H.; Panadeiros, Monica; Natale, Oscar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
differences in level and structure with OECD countries but with the common feature that energy taxes are prime contributors. We … then model an energy tax reform process out a status quo and towards environmentally related excises, distinguishing … specifications. We implement the model after some effort to estimate local and global environmental costs related to energy …
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The impact of taxation structure on growth : empirical evidence from EU27 member states
Piroli, Giuseppe; Peschner, Jörg - 2023
What is the impact of taxation on growth? Is it supported by specific taxes and harmed by others? We use an error correction model to study the relationship between the tax composition and GDP growth in the EU27 Member States over the period 1995-2019. Under the constraint of revenue-neutrality,...
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Energy taxation and competitiveness : special provisions for business in Germany's environmental tax reform
Kohlhaas, Michael - 2003
Environmental taxation very often comprises special provisions for parts of the business sector in order to attenuate effects on competitiveness of emissionintensive activities. This paper discusses motives, alternative designs and criteria for the evaluation of such safeguards and analyzes if...
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Diesel fuel and passenger cars receive preferential tax treatment in Europe : reform of taxation needed in Germany
Kunert, Uwe - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 32, pp. 289-298
neither fiscally profitable nor does it have the desired effect. Energy tax rates have remained the same since 2003 and its …
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Green Growth Challenges and the Need for an Energy Reform in Mexico
Richter, Carla Valdivia de - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
poverty and inequality. Such subsidies should be gradually removed. In the energy sector, reforms are needed in order to allow …
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Time for Permanent Estate Tax Reform
Cooper, Jeffrey A. - 2014
On January 1, 2013, the federal estate tax regime in effect from 2001 to 2012 is scheduled to revert to its pre-2001 structure. A 35% rate will soar to a 55% rate. A $5 million exemption will plummet to $1 million. Some deductions and credits enacted in 2001 will disappear while others repealed...
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Equity and transport policy reform
Mayeres, Inge - Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie … - 2001
The paper assesses the marginal welfare and equity impacts of three transport instruments in the presence of three transport externalities: congestion, air pollution and accidents. It considers a second-best economy in which the government has to use distortionary taxes for revenue-raising and...
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Environmental taxation and municipal fiscal federalism : remarks and perspectives on the Italian case study
Zatti, Andrea; Carraro, Fiorenza - In: Economics and policy of energy and the environment 55 (2013) 2, pp. 61-92
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