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Carbon Tax and Revenue Recycling: Impacts on Households in British Columbia

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This study investigates the distributional implications of the revenue-neutral carbon tax policy in British Columbia. We use a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the Canadian economy and disaggregate households into deciles by annual income using data from a large household expenditure survey. Using the model, we find that the existing BC carbon tax is highly progressive even prior to consideration of the revenue recycling scheme, such that the negative impact of the carbon tax on households with below-median income are smaller than that on households with above-median income. We show that our finding is a result of welfare effects of a carbon tax being determined primarily by the source of a households' income rather than by the destination of its expenditures. Finally, we show that the existing revenue recycling scheme is also progressive. Overall, the tax appears to be highly progressive.

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  • Marisa Beck, Nicholas Rivers, Randall Wigle, Hidemichi Yonezawa, 2014. "Carbon Tax and Revenue Recycling: Impacts on Households in British Columbia," LCERPA Working Papers 0080, Laurier Centre for Economic Research and Policy Analysis, revised 07 Sep 2014.
    • Handle: RePEc:wlu:lcerpa:0080
    Note: LCERPA Working Paper No. 2014-15.
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    • Q48 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Government Policy
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement

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