Conference Publication
"CRITICAL ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL TAXATION:
Insights and Analysis for Achieving Environmental Goals Through Tax Policy"
"Critical Issues" is an international, refereed publication devoted to environmental taxation issues on a worldwide basis. Its objective is to provide information on various kinds of environmental taxation issues which exist around the world so that effective approaches used in one country may be considered and possibly implemented by governmental authorities in other countries. It is published annually in a hardback edition by CCH Inc. (US), and contains papers presented at the series of Annual Global Conferences on Environmental Taxation.
EDITOR
Lawrence A. Kreiser, Cleveland State University, U.S.A.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Hope Ashiabor, Macquarie University, Australia
Kurt Deketelaere, University of Leuven, Belgium
Julie A. Lockhart, Western Washington University, U.S.A.
Janet E. Milne, Vermont Law School, U.S.A.
Volume I of "Critical Issues", (CCH Book #0-5113-201; 594 pages; Hardcover; published March 2002; Cost $US 125 per copy) contains 25 articles on environmental taxation issues written by authors from eight countries. This one-of-a-kind resource covers topics such as economic incentives, the relationship between taxes and the environment, taxes as a means to curb environmental abuse, environmental taxes and external competition, taxes and trade, incentives for renewable energy, special-purpose tax subsidies for promoting environmental goals, credits for "green" vehicles, and much more. Countries discussed include the U.S., Canada, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Australia, and Malaysia.
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Further information can also be obtained by either contacting the "greentaxes" website at www.greentaxes.org/notice.asp or the editor at l.kreiser@csuohio.edu.
Volume II of "Critical Issues" containing papers presented at the Third Global Conference on Environmental Taxation Issues in April 2002 at Woodstock, Vermont, USA will be published in Spring 2003.
Abstracts of papers presented at the Third Global Conference on Environmental Taxation Issues can either be viewed at www.vermontlaw.edu/elc/envirotax.cfm or by contacting Professor Janet Milne by email at jmilne@vermontlaw.edu.
CRITICAL ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL TAXATION
Volume I: International and Comparative Perspectives
Publication Date - July 2003
Hard bound
ISBN - 1-904501-07-9
Number of pages - 400
Price - £75.00/ $140.00/ €130.00 (excluding postage and handling)
* Orders received by 31 July 2003 will receive a 20% pre-publication discount *
Editors - Kurt Deketelaere, University of Leuven, Larry Kreiser, Cleveland State University, Janet Milne, Vermont Law School, Hope Ashiabor, Macquarie University
DESCRIPTION
Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation provides valuable insights and analysis for legislators, policy makers and academics addressing the challenges of pursuing and achieving environmental goals through taxation policy. It contains pioneering and thought-provoking articles contributed by the world's leading environmental tax scholars representing various jurisdictions worldwide. Their aim is to ensure that by discussing and sharing environmental taxation issues that exist around the world, effective approaches used in one country may be considered and possibly implemented by governmental authorities in other countries. The articles published in this work are based on presentations at the Third Annual Global Conference on Environmental Taxation held in April 2002 in Woodstock, Vermont U.S.A.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Role of Environmental Taxation in the Portfolio of Policy Instruments
- Environmental Taxation: Why Theory Matters. 2. Comparative Benefits and Optimal Use of Environmental Taxes. 3. Why Pollution Taxes Cannot Replace Command and Control Regulation. 4. The Instrument Choice Game: When Do Environmental Taxes Win?
- Legal Limits on Governmental Power to Use Environmental Taxation. 5. The Division of Fiscal Competencies in Belgium and its Influence on the Use of Environmental Taxes. 6. Legal Limits on the Competence of Governments in Europe: Spain. 7. Constitution Constraints to the Implementation of an Integrated Environmental Tax Management Policy: The Australian Experience. 8. Constitutional Constraints for Environmental Taxation in Mexico.
- Policies and Politics of Energy Taxation. 9. Energy Taxes in the EU - A Case Study of the of Environmental Taxation at a Supranational Level. 10. Co2 Taxation in the Nordic Countries: Results and Methodological Caveats. 11. Finnish Energy Taxation: How Well Has It Worked? 12. The History of the Dutch Regulatory Energy Tax. 13. Input Versus Output Taxation of Electricity in France. 14. United States Biomass Tax Credits in Search of a Taxpayer. 15. Rehabilitation of Mining Sites in Australia: Tax, Accounting and Serving the Environment.
- National Experiences with Pollution Taxation. 16. Institutional Obstacles to Environmental Taxation in The Former Soviet Union. 17. National Experiences in Central and Eastern Europe with Pollution Taxes. 18. Environmental Taxation in Japan and a Proposal for Policy Mix.
- Trade Limits on the Use of Environmental Taxation. 19. Topsy-turvy: The European Court of Justice and Border (Energy) Tax Adjustments - Should the World Trade Organization Follow Suit?. 20. Environmental Taxes and Border Tax Adjustments: An Economic Assessment. 21. Multilateral Trade Agreements and Market-Based Environmental Policies.
- Transportation and Environmental Taxation. 22. Environmental Taxation in the Regulation of Traffic and the Control of Vehicular Pollution in Singapore. 23. Sea, Rail or Road? Tax Issues Arising from the Carriage of Non-Bulk Freight within Australia. 24. Modelling Land Rent and Transportation Costs in the United States.
- Innovations in Environmentally Based Property Taxation. 25. Voter-Approved Land Banks in Cape Cod, Massachusetts: Taxation Politics, Land Protection, and Community Conservation. 26. Revolutionizing the Property Tax System in New Jersey to Fight Sprawl. 27. From Zee to Vee: Using Property Tax Assessments in England to Monitor The Economic Landscape.
Volume II of "Critical Issues" containing the edited proceeding of the 4th Annual Global Conference on Environmental Taxation (June 2003, Sydney) will be published in Spring 2004.
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