Revisiting Pesticide Taxation Schemes

Robert Finger, Niklas Möhring, Tobias Dalhaus and Thomas Böcker

Ecological Economics, 2017, vol. 134, issue C, 263-266

Abstract: The risks caused by pesticide use for human health and nature are one of the major challenges for agricultural policies. Despite their high potential to contribute to better policies, economic instruments such as pesticide taxes are rarely used in the current policy mix. In this essay, we combine current discussion on pesticide policies in European countries with new insights from recent economic research to provide an outline for better pesticide policies to policy makers and stakeholders. We show that differentiated taxation schemes have a high potential to reduce risks caused by pesticide use and that the targeted re-distribution of tax revenues in the agricultural sector is crucial to create leverage effects on pesticide use and to increase the acceptability of pesticide taxes.

Keywords: Pesticide; Tax; Incentive; Environment; Regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H23 Q12 Q52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.12.001

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