| Title: | [VOCs tax policy on China's economy development] |
| Author(s): | Liu CX; Wang YF; Wang HL; Hao ZP; Wang Z; |
| Address: | "Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080 China. liuchagxin08@mails.gucas.ac.cn" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 0250-3301 (Print) 0250-3301 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "In this paper, environmental tax was designed to control volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emissions. Computable general equilibrium (CGE) model was used to explore the impacts of environmental tax (in forms of indirect tax) on the macro-economy development at both national and sector levels. Different levels of tax were simulated to find out the proper tax rate. It is found out that imposing environmental tax on high emission sectors can cause the emission decreased immediately and can lead to negative impacts on macro-economy indicators, such as GDP (gross domestic products), total investment, total product and the whole consumption etc. However, only the government income increased. In addition, the higher the tax rate is, the more pollutants can be reduced and the worse economic effects can be caused. Consequently, it is suggested that, the main controlling policies of VOCs abatement should be mandatory orders, and low environmental tax can be implemented as a supplementary" |
| Keywords: | Air Pollutants/analysis/*standards Air Pollution/prevention & control China *Economic Development Environmental Pollution/*legislation & jurisprudence Taxes/*legislation & jurisprudence Volatile Organic Compounds/*analysis; |
| Notes: | "MedlineLiu, Chang-Xin Wang, Yu-Fei Wang, Hai-Lin Hao, Zheng-Ping Wang, Zheng chi English Abstract Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't China 2012/04/04 Huan Jing Ke Xue. 2011 Dec; 32(12):3509-14" |
