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Is Revenue Neutrality in Carbon Taxation Possible in Practice? Lessons from the Canadian Experience
In: Canadian Tax Journal/Revue fiscale canadienne, Band 70, Heft 3, S. 2022
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The Pros and Cons of Carbon Taxes and Cap-and-Trade Systems
As part of Canada's effort to meet its commitment to the 2015 Paris climate accord, the provinces must establish their own carbon pricing policies or the federal government will impose a policy on them. When choosing among the various policies, provincial governments should first determine how much a particular policy will negatively affect economic competitiveness in their jurisdictions. When the negative impacts are judged to be low, a carbon tax on each tonne of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) is the preferred choice. A cap-and-trade policy allocating tradable permits under a market price, or a hybrid combination of carbon tax and cap-and-trade, is best when the negative impacts could be high. These three policies can all satisfactorily achieve emissions reductions. However, other variables must be taken into consideration, including the provision of price certainty, how strongly each policy promotes innovative research into cleaner technologies, the complexity and costs of set-up, the policy's salience, or visibility to consumers, and the amount of revenue it can raise. A carbon tax has a major advantage over cap-and-trade and a hybrid version because it allows for carbon price certainty, is less costly to administer and is a substantial source of revenue. However, a cap-and-trade policy offers its own advantages in that emissions allowances can be allocated so as to minimize the policy's negative effects on competitiveness and prevent emissions leakage. The latter is the term used when companies leave one jurisdiction to operate in another jurisdiction that has either fewer or no rules around carbon pricing. A hybrid policy, also known as output-based pricing, allows for some permits to be allocated freely based on a facility's or industrial sector's emissions and output. It also offers more carbon price certainty than a pure cap-and-trade system. Research shows that a hybrid policy almost completely reduces the impacts on competitiveness and emissions leakage. And while a carbon tax is more visible to the public, the advantages of higher visibility are debatable. Such a policy may be favourable because a lower price is required to achieve the same GHG reductions, but it might also be unfavourable because politically it is less palatable. British Columbia has a carbon tax, while Quebec uses a cap-and-trade system. Alberta has a hybrid policy that covers large industrial emitters and a carbon tax for smaller ones. Other provinces remain without a carbon pricing regime, while Ontario's newly elected Progressive Conservative government is set to dismantle the province's cap-and-trade policy. Those provinces that wait for the federal government to impose carbon pricing on them can expect to get a hybrid policy much like Alberta's. For provincial governments wishing to establish their own policies, choosing one that is the right fit involves weighing the advantages and disadvantages of each. Ultimately, a given jurisdiction should examine its own economic and emissions profile in order to make the best choice for achieving the combined goal of reducing GHGs without negatively impinging on industry's competitiveness.
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The Pros and Cons of Carbon Taxes and Cap-and-Trade Systems
In: The School of Public Policy Publications, Band 11: 30
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Is It Time to Raise the Gas Tax? Optimal Gasoline Taxes for Ontario and Toronto
In: Canadian public policy: Analyse de politiques, Band 41, Heft 3, S. 179-190
ISSN: 1911-9917
This article uses a representative agent model and Canadian data to calculate the optimal gasoline taxes for Ontario and the Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area (GTHA) in a second-best setting with pre-existing distortionary income taxes. The results suggest a second-best optimal gasoline tax of 40.57 cents per litre in 2006 Canadian dollars for the GTHA that is much higher than the current tax rate of 24.7 cents per litre, and also higher than recently proposed increases. The resulting value is insensitive to whether the additional revenue is used to reduce taxes on income or to incrementally fund increased public transit infrastructure (the Big Move plan). However, in the absence of a regional tax, the second-best optimal gasoline tax for Ontario as a whole of 28.51 cents per litre in 2006 Canadian dollars is slightly higher than the current tax rate and in line with proposed increases.
Is It Time to Raise the Gas Tax? Optimal Gasoline Taxes for Ontario and Toronto
In: Canadian public policy: a journal for the discussion of social and economic policy in Canada = Analyse de politiques, Band 41, Heft 3, S. 179-191
ISSN: 0317-0861
Second-Best Optimal Gasoline Taxes for Ontario and the Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area
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Log Export Policy for British Columbia
In: Fraser Institute, Vancouver, Canada, June 2014
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The Effects of Bailouts and Soft Budget Constraints on the Environment
In: Environmental and Resource Economics, Band 54, Heft 1
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Canadian Environmental Indicators — Water
In: Fraser Institute, Studies in Environmental Policy, July 2013
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The Effects of Bailouts and Soft Budget Constraints on the Environment
In: Environmental and resource economics, Band 54, Heft 1, S. 127-137
ISSN: 1573-1502
Canadian Environmental Indicators: Air Quality
In: Studies in Environmental Policy, January 2012
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Lifting the Moratorium: The Costs and Benefits of Offshore Oil Drilling in British Columbia
In: Fraser Institute, 'Studies in Energy Policy', October 2012
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Economic Freedom and Air Quality
In: Fraser Institute, Vancouver, Canada, April 2014
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