Gradual Green Tax Reforms

Carlos de Miguel and Baltasar Manzano

Working Papers from Economics for Energy

Abstract: Green tax reforms have become an important tool not only in protecting the environment but also in bringing about a more efficient tax system. However, reforms often imply accepting sacrifices in the short-run and bring about the risk of potential political opposition. Within this framework, the debate on whether to implement green tax reforms in one-step or gradually becomes of great interest. In this paper we use a calibrated dynamic general equilibrium model to evaluate different reforms that consist in increasing energy taxes and adjusting capital taxation in a revenue-neutral framework. Our findings show that, although an environmental dividend is always granted, the efficiency dividend depends on the type of reform, its size and how gradually it is implemented. Thus, one-step reforms that produce an efficiency dividend would imply large efficiency costs in the short-run. In this case, the reform could only produce efficiency gains in the short-run if it is implemented gradually, although such gains would end up disappearing in the long-run.

Keywords: Green Tax Reform; General Equilibrium (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E62 H23 Q43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2011-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dge, nep-ene, nep-env, nep-mac and nep-pbe
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