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Home / Working Paper Series / Working Paper # 28 – Environmental Taxation, Revenues, and Effectiveness: The Need for Principled Guidance (October 1994)

Working Paper # 28 – Environmental Taxation, Revenues, and Effectiveness: The Need for Principled Guidance (October 1994)

By Robert J.P. Gale

Working Paper # 28 - Environmental Taxation, Revenues, and Effectiveness: The Need for Principled Guidance (October 1994)This study reviews the salient points in the current debate about the desirability of environmental taxation. Two key considerations guide the review: (1) the arguments that suggest that environmental taxation is effective; and (2) the arguments that suggest that environmental taxation is an unjustifiable grab for revenues of power. In reviewing these arguments, preliminary observations are made about selected principles that could be used to guide the setting of environmental taxes.

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Working Paper # 28 - Environmental Taxation, Revenues, and Effectiveness: The Need for Principled Guidance (October 1994) (2.41 Mb - 21 pages) Date: 1994