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Business Taxes

Joe Manchin Just Made A Great Argument In Support of A Carbon Tax

May 3, 2022 –
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin set off environmentalists last week when he said tax credits to subsidize the purchase of electric vehicle (EV) tax credits...
Business Taxes

The Energy Tax Policy Conundrum: Do We Want To Reduce Fossil Fuel Prices Or Increase Them?

April 7, 2022 –
State and federal lawmakers are debating an extraordinary range of often-contradictory energy-related tax changes. These inconsistencies have existed for years, but they rarely have been...
Business Taxes

Border Carbon Adjustment without Carbon Pricing Makes Little Sense

August 9, 2021 –
A group of Senate Democrats has introduced a bill to impose tariffs on imports of carbon-intensive goods and fossil fuels equal to the domestic environmental...
Business Taxes

Some In the Environmental Justice Movement Oppose A Carbon Tax. That Is A Problem

July 20, 2021 –
While President Biden has called climate change an existential threat, his proposals for addressing it remain modest relative to the enormity of the problem. In...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

How Biden’s No-Tax Pledge Could Sink His Climate Change Initiative

April 9, 2021 –
Nowhere is President Biden’s ambitious policy agenda more in conflict than in his triple aim of funding a major infrastructure initiative , attacking climate change...
Business Taxes

Build Back a Better Revenue Base with Environmental Taxes

April 7, 2021 –
Once the US economy recovers from the COVID-19 crisis, the federal government will need significant additional revenues to reduce its ballooning deficit. Congress and President...
Business Taxes

Why Carbon Taxes Are So Hard To Pass

August 15, 2019 –
Why Carbon Taxes Are So Hard To Pass Economists love carbon taxes . According to polls, so do roughly two-thirds of Americans. Yet voters in...
Business Taxes

How Should The US Spend Carbon Tax Revenue?

January 24, 2019 –
The debate over a carbon tax is about two big things: The most obvious is whether a tax at politically acceptable levels could significantly slow...
Business Taxes

Economists Love Carbon Taxes. Voters Don't.

December 27, 2018 –
Economists—both liberal and conservative—love carbon taxes. The levies, they say, would create market incentives for people to reduce their consumption of fossil fuels and, more...

How Should Government Return Carbon Taxes To Households?

December 12, 2018 –
Carbon dividends are the hottest idea in climate policy. A diverse mix of progressive and conservative voices are backing the idea of returning carbon tax...
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The Tax Gap’s Many Shades of Gray (Brief)

Daniel Hemel, Janet Holtzblatt, Steven M. Rosenthal
February 22, 2022

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