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Designing Green Taxation

In: Green Taxation in Question

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  • Carsten Daugbjerg
  • Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

Abstract

Analyses undertaken at the micro, meso and macro-level in Chapters 2, 3 and 4, demonstrate that there are considerable political and institutional constraints to green taxation in economic sectors. This means that tax levels have been set too low to achieve the desired environmental target levels. In this chapter, we analyze whether it is possible to design green tax schemes in ways which decrease opposition to them. We extract the lessons learned from the three preceding chapters and put forward policy recommendations for the future application of green taxation. It is argued that there are ways to improve the design of green tax schemes to create incentive effects and at the same time gain acceptability within producer communities by accommodating producer interests. If the potential of policy design is fully utilized, green taxes may become more than just secondary instruments in pollution control and may even have significant environmental effects. Lack of acceptability within producer communities is an important reason why green taxation is not applied in some situations, or that green taxes are set at low levels where they have limited incentive effects and function mainly as measures to raise state revenue.

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  • Carsten Daugbjerg & Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, 2001. "Designing Green Taxation," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Green Taxation in Question, chapter 5, pages 117-135, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-59553-8_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230595538_5
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    Cited by:

    1. Gullberg, Anne Therese, 2008. "Lobbying friends and foes in climate policy: The case of business and environmental interest groups in the European Union," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 36(8), pages 2954-2962, August.
    2. Anne Gullberg, 2008. "Rational lobbying and EU climate policy," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 8(2), pages 161-178, June.

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