Zur Gerechtigkeit von Umweltabgaben Steuergleichheit und Leistungsfähigkeitsorientierung als Probleme von Ökosteuern?

Gawel Erik ()
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Gawel Erik: Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF), Universität Bielefeld, Wellenberg 1, D-33615 Bielefeld

Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, 2000, vol. 49, issue 2, 182-211

Abstract: Environmental charges are often reproached for lacking distributive justice. The polluter-pays-principle as some kind of benefit taxation may therefore fulfill efficiency requirements, but can it, as a rule for taxation, be considered fair and just, too? However, constitutional law in Germany seems to make it essential for reasons of distributive justice that taxation, in general, obeys the ability-to-pay principle. For this reason, eco-taxes are partly condsidered even unconstitutional. The paper analyzes the crucial question whether green taxes can be compatible with equal sacrifice taxation and therefore may satisfy the constitutional law principle of equality in taxation.

Date: 2000
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