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Tax Law and the Environment

A Multidisciplinary and Worldwide Perspective
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Tax Law and the Environment: A Multidisciplinary and Worldwide Perspective takes a multidisciplinary approach to explore the ways how tax policy can is used solve environmental problems throughout the world, using a multi-jurisdictional and multidisciplinary approach. Environmental taxation involves using taxes to impose a cost on environmentally harmful activities or tax subsidies to provide preferred tax treatment to more sustainable alternatives to those harmful activities. This book provides a detailed analysis of environmental taxation, with examples from around the world. As the extraction, processing and use of energy use resources is has been a major cause of environmental harm, this book explores the taxation and subsidization of both fossil fuels and renewable energy. Its analysis of the past, present, and future potential of environmental taxation will help policymakers move economies toward sustainability, as well as and informing students, academics, and citizens about tax solutions for pressing environmental issues.
Chapter One The Curious Origins of the Major U.S. Tax Incentives for Oil and Gas Producers Chapter Two Problems, Policies and Politics of Taxing Energy in the U.S. Chapter Three Tax Treatment of Coal Chapter Four The Japanese Carbon Tax and the Challenges to Low-carbon Policy Cooperation in East Asia Chapter Five Tax and the Environment- Australia Style Chapter Six Environmental Taxation in Canada Chapter Seven The Introduction of Carbon Taxes in Europe Chapter Eight Environmental Taxation in Latin America Chapter Nine Taxing Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Key Issues Chapter Ten Tax Incentives for Conservation Easement Donations: Learning from the U.S. Experience Chapter Eleven The World Trade Organization and Renewable Energy
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