Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su10020501
Keywords
environmental fiscal reform; CGE; pollutant emissions; double dividend hypothesis
Funding
- European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant [654189]
- Harvard Global Institute
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [654189] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
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An environmental fiscal reform (EFR) represents a transition of a taxation system toward one based in environmental taxation, rather than on taxation of capital, labor, or consumption. It differs from an environmental tax reform (ETR) in that an EFR also includes a reform of subsidies which counteract environmental policy. This research details different ways in which an EFR is not only possible but also a good option that provides economic and environmental benefits. We have developed a detailed dynamic CGE model examining 101 industries and commodities in Spain, with an energy and an environmental extension comprising 31 pollutant emissions, in order to simulate the economic and environmental effects of an EFR. The reform focuses on 39 industries related to the energy, water, transport and waste sectors. We simulate an increase in taxes and a reduction on subsidies for these industries and at the same time we use new revenues to reduce labor, capital and consumption taxes. All revenue recycling options provide both economic and environmental benefits, suggesting that the double dividend hypothesis can be achieved. After three to four years after implementing an EFR, GDP is higher than the base case, hydrocarbons consumption declines and all analyzed pollutants show a reduction.
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