Designing forest taxes with varying government preferences and budget targets

Article Abstract:

Government preferences and revenue constraints affect its policy choices in forest taxation in the context of forest policy issues such as nontimber benefits, land abandonment, and tax design and choice. Recommendations are given for a revenue constrained government, which include implementation of a property or a harvest yield tax or both to raise revenues and correct externalities, depending on gravity of the constraints and on the value land owners place on nontimber benefits.

Administration of Conservation Programs, FORESTRY, Forestry and Logging, Forest Conservation, Research, Tax policy, Forest policy

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Pollution taxes and pollution abatement in an oligopoly supergame

Article Abstract:

A mathematical model is used to evaluate the effectivity of an emissions tax in an industry where there are only a few competitors, and whether emissions taxes spur oligopolists to spend for alternative pollution abatement technologies. Firms are assumed to act either simultaneously, coordinating decisions on whether or not to invest in pollution abatement technology. Another scenario assumes that firms act independently of each other in a sequential game of perfect information.

Models, Environmental policy, Environmental law

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Nonlinear forest taxes

Article Abstract:

The effects of the implementation of nonlinear forest taxes on forest rotations are explored usinga Faustmann model. In this model, progressivity shortens rotations. A neutral set of nonlinear forest taxes should offset the lengthening effect caused by the level of yield taxes. The combination of level yield taxes and tax rate progressivity results in the formation of nonlinear taxes.

Tax research

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