Is carbon-added tax better than a carbon tax for China?
LE3 .A278 2012
2012
Hobson, Paul
Acadia University
Bachelor of Arts
Honours
Economics
The Kyoto protocol committed industrial nations to cut their carbon emissions by at least 5 percent below the levels in 1990 in a span of 5 years. Carbon taxation provides one mechanism for achieving such a goal. In Canada, two provinces, British Columbia and Quebec, have introduced direct carbon taxation as a policy directed at reducing carbon emissions. The Mintz-Olewiler carbon tax model would convert the $1.04 per gallon federal tax on gasoline to a national carbon tax, equivalent to roughly $42 per tonne of CO2. This carbon tax would then be extended to include heating oil, natural gas, coal, etc., ensuring a level playing field across alternative fuels. There is a proposal to introduce a carbon tax in China. The tax would be of the type levied in British Columbia albeit at a significantly lower rate. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the merits of, instead, imposing a national carbon-added-tax, similar in design to a value-added-tax.
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