CARBON TAXES AND CURRENT ENERGY POLICIES IN OECD COUNTRIES
In response to the threat of global warming much attention has been paid to taxes levied on the carbon content of fossil fuels (carbon taxes), since they are a potentially efficient economic instrument for reducing emissions of CO2, the main greenhouse gas. This paper first reviews the existing and evolving structure of fossil fuel prices and taxes and the relationship between energy prices and emissions. It then analyses the economic cost of superimposing carbon taxes on top of current energy taxes. Finally, using a simple energy demand system, tax reform proposals are simulated including restructuring present energy taxation by the average implicit carbon tax and a carbon cum energy tax similar to the EC proposal. (A) For the covering abstract see IRRD 866201.
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Authors:
- HOELLER, P
- COPPEL, J
- Publication Date: 1992
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: p. 167-93
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Serial:
- THE ECONOMIC COSTS OF REDUCING CO2 EMISSIONS (OECD ECONOMIC STUDIES NO 19)
- Publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- ISSN: 0255-0822
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Air pollution; Carbon dioxide; Conferences; Costs; Demand; Federal government; Fuels; Greenhouse effect; Policy; Tariffs; Taxes
- Uncontrolled Terms: Decreases
- ITRD Terms: 2452: Air pollution; 7393: Carbon dioxide; 8525: Conference; 224: Cost; 9009: Decrease; 285: Demand (econ); 3850: Fuel; 183: Government (national); 2451: Greenhouse effect; 173: Policy; 241: Tariff; 268: Tax
- Subject Areas: Energy; Finance; Policy;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00668653
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
- ISBN: 92-64-13828-5
- Files: ITRD
- Created Date: Nov 16 1994 12:00AM