Incidence of Environmental Taxes in India: Environmentally Extended Social Accounting Matrix-Based Analysis

Rajat Verma () and Barun Deb Pal
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Rajat Verma: Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
Barun Deb Pal: IFPRI-South Asia

A chapter in Applications of the Input-Output Framework, 2018, pp 269-290 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Command and control policies have failed miserably in the Indian context in preserving the environment. Thus, this paper looks at the implications of preserving environment through fiscal instruments such as environmental taxes. This has been done by using an environmentally extended social accounting matrix (ESAM) framework to design and analyse the incidence of these taxes on rural and urban household groups. Ecotaxes were found to be progressive for both the regions at 5 and 10% tax rates. However, these taxes were regressive for one household category of the rural area which could be made progressive through a minimal proportion of revenue transfer generated from the levy of these taxes.

Keywords: Environmental taxes; Progressive taxes; Environmentally extended SAM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H23 Q53 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-1507-7_10

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