Pollute less or tax more? Asymmetries in the EU environmental taxes – Ecological balance nexus

Esen, Ömer; Yıldırım, Durmuş Çağrı; Yıldırım, Seda

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2021.106662

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“…The contribution's findings demonstrate the impact of the introduction of an environmental tax on the tax system, as well as the major impact on company behavior with an emphasis on eco-innovation processes. Esen et al [1] employed a panel smooth transition regression (PSTR) to investigate the influence of environmentally relevant taxes on environmental performance in the EU-15 nations from 1995 to 2016. The research focused on total ecological balance and its primary components, which were based on the major categories of ecologically productive regions such as farmland, grazing land, forest area, and fishing grounds.…”

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“…Environmental pollution is a multidimensional and complicated problem that may have significant environmental and economic effects, as well as jeopardize a country's security [1]. Environmental policy and the conservation of living environments, aimed at reducing environmental burdens, have become a global issue and a component of national and international economic strategies [2].…”

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“…For example, in 1972, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) nations adopted the "polluter pays" concept, which compelled all polluters to pay taxes for pollution they directly or indirectly caused [4]. Nowadays, the rapidly expanding population and economic activities cause an increase in environmental contamination globally, as well as increased attention to this issue [1]. They have progressively garnered greater attention to economic strategies in both rising and developing nations such as China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam during the last few decades.…”

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“…They have progressively garnered greater attention to economic strategies in both rising and developing nations such as China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam during the last few decades. The fact that environmental issues are becoming increasingly prominent raises the issue of evaluating the effectiveness of various environmental policy tools [1]. According to Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union (EU), one of the primary priorities of the European Union is environmental protection.…”

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Environmental Taxation and CO<sub>2</sub> Emission Management

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Due to the obvious ozone layer depletion and continual contamination of the air and water, environmental protection has become a global priority. In an environmentally challenged country like Nigeria, the difficulty of having clean water and air is a significant cause for environmental taxes to become unavoidable. Although these taxes are presently levied in the form of fines for gas flaring, gas exploration tax, and petroleum profit tax, which are 85 percent more than the standard business income tax of 30 percent of revenues. The argument is based on the fact that the business operations of the oil and gas sector cause a significant degree of pollution to the environment. As a result, this research looks at the influence of environmental taxes on CO 2 emission control in Nigeria. The research spans the years 2010 to 2020. According to the regression findings, the gas exploration tax has an inconsequential negative influence on CO 2 emission management, but the petroleum profit tax has a negligible positive impact on CO 2 emission control. On the other side, the cost of environmental preservation has a large beneficial influence on CO 2 emission control. As a result, the study suggests the implementation of more suitable environmental taxes and levies in order to lower pollution levels in Nigeria.

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“…However, on the other hand, they may have an uneven impact on individual social groups, creating new groups of the so-called losers (i.e., poorer entities), which are vehemently opposed to the introduction of new ecological taxes. Esen et al (2021), based on an analysis of environmental tax revenues in the EU-15, noted that well-designed environmental taxes (set at an optimal level) can reduce environmental problems/ecological imbalances but should not be combined with fiscal instruments such as tax exemptions, refunds or tax breaks. Cai et al (2018) attempted to determine the level of pollution tax of industrial waste.…”

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Fuzzy Model of Sustainable Development With the Inclusion of Financial Variables

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The aim of the article was to build a model based on fuzzy logic describing the level of sustainable development for the individual EU Member States in 2009–2019 and to conduct fuzzy simulations as a result of which scenarios for the prediction of sustainable development acknowledging financial variables (the share of environmental taxes, a deficit, a debt). The original research approach is expressed by including fuzzy models in the analysis of the level of sustainable development with the inclusion of financial variables. The Netherlands achieved the highest value (the highest level of sustainable development) (0.571). Slovenia (0.564) and Denmark (0.559) came second and third. The lowest average value (the lowest level of sustainable development) was recorded for Slovakia (0.423). After 10 years there are evident changes in the distribution of individual typological groups. In 2019, the countries belonging to the first and second typological groups were located primarily in the northern and central Europe. The scenario analysis showed that in the case of most countries, if the analyzed variables remained at the maximum or minimum level throughout the analyzed period, it would not significantly affect the assessment of their level of sustainable development, their ranking positions, and inclusion into typological groups.

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Dynamics between environmental taxes and ecological sustainability: Evidence from top‐seven green economies by novel quantile approaches

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Regulations and taxes are considered essential drivers for climate change policies and improving ecological quality. The prior research primarily relies on regulatory or noneconomic measures to ensure ecological sustainability, while the role of marketbased or economic measures in ecological sustainability is yet to be investigated.Hence, realizing the need for policy shift, this study is an effort to determine the dynamics between environmental taxes and ecological sustainability for the period between 1995/Q1 and 2018/Q4 using data of top-seven green economies by employing novel Quantile-on-Quantile (QQ) regression approach. The outcomes from the QQ approach indicate the mixed and asymmetric impact of the environmental taxes on ecological sustainability in sample countries over different quantiles.However, a higher ecological promoting impact is observed at upper-middle quantiles in most of the sample countries. The robustness of the study's results is validated by Quantile Regression (QR) approach and the nonparametric quantile causality test.The study's outcomes provide significant suggestions to formulate policies for helping sample economies to accomplish Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 7 and 13 while ensuring ecological sustainability.

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Pollute less or tax more? Asymmetries in the EU environmental taxes – Ecological balance nexus

Cited by 52 publications

References 65 publications

Environmental Taxation and CO<sub>2</sub> Emission Management

Environmental Taxation and CO<sub>2</sub> Emission Management

Fuzzy Model of Sustainable Development With the Inclusion of Financial Variables

Dynamics between environmental taxes and ecological sustainability: Evidence from top‐seven green economies by novel quantile approaches

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