The French carbon tax system: a failure compared to the swedish example? The case of road freight transport

La fiscalité carbone en France: un échec face à la Suède ? Le cas des transports routiers de marchandises

Pétronille Harnay ()
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Pétronille Harnay: IFSTTAR/AME/SPLOTT - Systèmes Productifs, Logistique, Organisation des Transports et Travail - IFSTTAR - Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux - Communauté Université Paris-Est

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Abstract: Launched within the French PLF in 2010 in the form of a Contribution Climat-Energie, the carbon tax has now been withdrawn. Without mentioning the political reasons for the law's repeal, we will examine the ecological and economic efficiency that this new tax could have had in particular as carbon taxation has been successfully introduced in Sweden. Taking the example of freight road transport, which was a particular focus of the law, we refer to the swedish example, the advice of experts (through different simulations stemming from macroeconomic models, or the recommendations of the Rocard Commission), and from actors concerned (loaders, truckers, unions). The carbon tax was rejected by a majority of the freight road transport sector, largely because, according to them, it targeted their competitiveness and related to an over taxation of the sector. Was it withdrawn advisedly?

Keywords: Carbon taxation and competitivity; freight transport; comparing France and Sweden; comparaison France-Suède; transport routier de marchandises; Fiscalité carbone et compétitivité (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-03-31
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Published in Les Cahiers Scientifiques du Transport / Scientific Papers in Transportation, 2012, 61 | 2012 (61), pp.35-62. ⟨10.46298/cst.12184⟩

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DOI: 10.46298/cst.12184

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