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carbon tax

a tax on the emissions caused by the burning of coal, gas, and oil, aimed at reducing the production of greenhouse gases
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Basically, the Carbon tax boils down to a 12-cent per gallon fuel tax that increases a minimum of 2-cents per year until 2030.
March Chairman's Corner
Still, my call for more proper taxation of coal-which I explained to be a relatively painless way of raising much needed revenues for the government ('Let's get the carbon tax right,' 9/26/17)-met strident resistance even from some of my economist-friends.
The case for the carbon tax
A carbon tax obeys these proportions, taxing coal more heavily than petroleum products, and much more than natural gas.
Carbon tax: the political football
Because of concern that a carbon tax may weaken the international competitiveness of countries levying it, several researchers have studied the influence of such a tax on industrial international competitiveness (Ho et al.
Influence of a carbon tax on low-carbon trade competitiveness of the paper-making industry
In Washington state, voters rejected what would have been the nation's first carbon tax - a tax on greenhouse gas emissions generated by burning fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal.
Two untried experiments
This study closely models the design features of the tax as outlined in the 2013 Carbon Tax Policy Paper.
South Africa : Pulication of the Carbon Tax modelling report
Works analysing the impact of carbon tax on individual ASEAN country are available, such as the ones by: Corong (2008) on the Philippines; Coxhead, Wattanakuljarus and Chan (2013) on Vietnam; and Yusuf and Resosudarmo (2015) on Indonesia.
The economy-wide impact of a uniform carbon tax in ASEAN
Of course, any kind of carbon tax will disproportionately affect those who consume the most fossil fuel; that's how you change behaviour.
Obama shows how not to sell a carbon tax
British Columbia started phasing in a carbon tax in 2008 and used the revenue to reduce income taxes.
The Case For A Carbon Tax
Regulations can be effective, and are more politically palatable to some, but they are demonstrably less cost-effective than a carbon tax or cap and trade.
Climate action: carbon pricing is an essential first step: this article is excerpted from Acting on Climate Change: Solutions by Canadian Scholars, Catherine Potvin et al, a position paper by the UNESCO-McGill Chair for Dialogues on Sustainability (March 2015)
The carbon tax repeal was greeted with approval by Australian industry groups, including those representing the mining industry, and was condemned by the opposition Labor and Greens parties and the environmental left.
Australia repeals carbon tax
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has started targeting companies now that the carbon tax has been scrapped.
ACCC Targets Australian Companies Over Scrapped Carbon Tax; Orders Virgin, Qantas to Explain Why No Savings to Give Back to Consumers
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