New Green Tax Reforms: Ex-Ante Assessments for Spain
Open Access
- 13 October 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by MDPI AG in Sustainability
- Vol. 11 (20), 5640
- https://doi.org/10.3390/su11205640
Abstract
The great recession brought an increased need for public revenues and generated distributive concerns across many countries. This has led to a new generation of green tax reforms characterized by the use of markedly heterogeneous proposals that, overall, share a more flexible use of tax receipts adapted to the new economic environment. This article explores the possibilities of implementing this new generation of green tax reforms in Spain. It analyzes the impact of such reforms on energy demand, emissions, public revenues and income distribution from taxing various energy-related environmental damages and by considering two alternative uses for the tax receipts: fiscal consolidation and funding the costs of renewable-energy support schemes.This publication has 44 references indexed in Scilit:
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