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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...

Bill Nordhaus, The Nobel Prize, And Carbon Taxes

October 10, 2018 –
Bill Nordhaus, Climate Change, And Carbon Taxes Two events this week raised the profile of carbon taxes. The first was a report by the UN...
Business Taxes

The White House’s (Very Brief) Flirtation with a Market-Based Solution to Climate Change

April 7, 2017 –
For a brief shining moment the other day, it looked as if the Trump Administration was considering a carbon tax. Combined with its aggressive effort...
Business Taxes

What Should Government Do With Carbon Tax Revenues?

February 14, 2017 –
The other day, a high-powered group of former senior Republican policy advisers and business executives proposed replacing regulations aimed at reducing greenhouse gases with a...
State and Local Issues

Why an unusual coalition defeated Washington state’s carbon tax initiative

November 14, 2016 –
Last Tuesday, Washington State voters rejected a ballot initiative that would have created the first carbon tax in the United States.
Business Taxes

Lessons for the US From Canada’s Ambitious Carbon Tax Plan

October 6, 2016 –
Earlier this week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dropped a bombshell: He’ll require every province to adopt either a carbon tax or develop a carbon...
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Exxon, Yes Exxon, Backs a Carbon Tax

June 30, 2016 –
The Wall Street Journal reported this morning (paywall) that Exxon, the world’s largest producer of fossil fuels, is actively lobbying for a carbon tax. Yes,...

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From the Briefing Book

What is a carbon tax?

December 23, 2015 by tpcwebsite

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What is a carbon tax?

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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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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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Some Background

December 2, 2015 by tpcwebsite

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