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What is a carbon tax?

December 23, 2015 by tpcwebsite

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What is a carbon tax?

A.

Emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are changing the climate. A carbon tax puts a price on those emissions, encouraging people, businesses, and governments to produce less of them. A carbon tax’s burden would fall most heavily on energy-intensive industries and lower-income households. Policymakers could use the resulting revenue to offset those impacts, lower individual and corporate taxes, reduce the budget deficit, invest in clean energy and climate adaptation, or for other uses.

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December 2, 2015 by tpcwebsite

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What tax incentives encourage energy production from fossil fuels?

December 23, 2015 by tpcwebsite

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What tax incentives encourage energy production from fossil fuels?

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Provisions of the federal income tax that subsidize domestic production of fossil fuels include the expensing of exploration, development, and intangible drilling costs; the use of percentage depletion instead of cost depletion to recover drilling and development costs of oil and gas wells and coal mines; and numerous smaller incentives for production and distribution of oil, coal, and natural gas.

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