Financing environmental expenditures through the earmarking of taxes and charges

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Chapter 5 in Tax Expenditures and Environmental Policy, 2020, pp 148-193 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Attempts by governments to rein-in ballooning public spending budgets makes expenditure cuts on environmental programmes the first casualty of the process. This has given environmental programmes a stop-start nature and undermined policy certainty and effectiveness in the process. Chapter 5 explores the possibility of minimising such disruptions by undertaking a critical evaluation of alternative approaches to the implementation of public expenditures. Towards this end, the analysis in this chapter revisits the earmarking debate and examines the question of the extent to which the hypothecation of revenues from environmental taxes and charges can be relied on as a source of a secured stream of funds to finance environmental policy programmes on a sustained basis.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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