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Local authorities, for example, may levy taxes for waste management Environmental taxes increase the cost of activities that generate pollution or harm the
1 sept 2011 · For example, many countries impose significant taxes on motor fuels like petrol and diesel because their use contributes to global warming and
Abstract This paper examines potential environmental tax policy reforms It focuses primarily on a carbon tax, but also more briefly considers a range of
All OECD countries have introduced environmentally related taxes to some extent, and an increasing number are implementing comprehensive green tax reforms
5 For some discussion of environmental taxes in other contexts, see, for example, Fullerton (2005) on household waste; Boyd (2003) on water pollution taxes;
In Canada, environmental taxes are levied on the tax bases of energy, transportation, pollution and natural resources Examples of environmental taxes in
Example of tax: 1 GJ Coal default emission factor: 100 g NOx/GJ Tax is 0 52 DKK/ GJ =0,08 USD/GJ if emissions is not metered Emissions might be reduced to fx
environmental taxes in the UK in recent years, on landfill (the landfill tax emissions and Dutch charges for water pollution are good examples But the
However, the number of these environmental taxes is increasing and new tax bases are being explored Examples of such tax bases include agricultural inputs