The political economy of British Columbia's carbon tax / Kathryn Harrison
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: OECD. OECD environment working paper ; 63Publisher: Paris : OECD, 2013Description: Online-Ressource (22 S.) : graph. DarstSubject(s): Genre/Form: DOI: DOI: 10.1787/5k3z04gkkhkg-enOnline resources: Summary: In July 2008, the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) launched North America’s first revenue-neutral carbon tax reform. The tax, which applied to all combustion sources of all fossil fuels, was introduced at a rate of CAD 10 per tonne of CO2, with a schedule for annual increases of CAD 5 per tonne of CO2 until the tax reached CAD 30 per tonne of CO2 in 2012. Tax revenues were fully recycled via a combination of corporate and income tax cuts, phased in over time. This paper reviews the political economy of the BC tax in three distinct periods – its origins, its survival in the face of political backlash, and its longer-term prospects...PPN: PPN: 781266203Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-13-SOC | ZDB-13-SOC-ebookNo physical items for this record
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