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Incidence of Environmental Taxes in India: Environmentally Extended Social Accounting Matrix-Based Analysis

In: Applications of the Input-Output Framework

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  • Rajat Verma

    (Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies)

  • Barun Deb Pal

    (IFPRI-South Asia)

Abstract

Command and control policies have failed miserably in the Indian context in preserving the environment. Thus, this paper looks at the implications of preserving environment through fiscal instruments such as environmental taxes. This has been done by using an environmentally extended social accounting matrix (ESAM) framework to design and analyse the incidence of these taxes on rural and urban household groups. Ecotaxes were found to be progressive for both the regions at 5 and 10% tax rates. However, these taxes were regressive for one household category of the rural area which could be made progressive through a minimal proportion of revenue transfer generated from the levy of these taxes.

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  • Rajat Verma & Barun Deb Pal, 2018. "Incidence of Environmental Taxes in India: Environmentally Extended Social Accounting Matrix-Based Analysis," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, in: Kakali Mukhopadhyay (ed.), Applications of the Input-Output Framework, pages 269-290, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-981-13-1507-7_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-1507-7_10
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    Keywords

    Environmental taxes; Progressive taxes; Environmentally extended SAM;
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    JEL classification:

    • H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
    • Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
    • Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy

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