Local Air pollution and global climate change taxes: a distributional analysis for the case of Spain.
Authors
García Muros, Xaquín; Burguillo Cuesta, María Mercedes; González Equino, Mikel; Romero Jordán, DesiderioIdentifiers
Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/58685DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2016.1159951
ISSN: 0964-0568
Date
2016Affiliation
Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de EconomíaBibliographic citation
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2016, v. 60, n. 3, p. 419-436
Keywords
Environmental tax reform
Distributional impact
Cocal air pollution taxes
Global climate change taxes
Taxes regressivity
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
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Abstract
Global climate change measures are difficult to implement. In this context, local air
pollution measures may play an important role in the political agenda since their
effects are felt more immediately by citizens. Distributional implications are one of
the main barriers for implementing environmental policies. This paper explores the
distributional implications of air pollution taxes and compares them to climate change
taxes. For the comparison, both tax schemes were set to yield the same revenue.
Methodologically, the study uses a top down approach linking a macro model to a
micro model. We find that taxes on local air pollutants are more regressive than those
levied on CO2. This is because the goods implicitly taxed have a greater weight in the
consumer basket of low-income groups, even if the tax revenues are recycled.
Furthermore, the revenue-neutral recycle scheme increases both taxes efficiency, but,
at the same time, can increase regressivity.
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