"Green" taxation: speeches VS actions

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"Green" taxation: speeches VS actions




by Christophe » 26/06/09, 16:06

Very good article in TerraEco about between words and deeds on:

- Lowered VAT on green products
- The climate-energy contribution
- Carbon tax (on imported products)
- Tax credits and zero-rate loans

Green taxation: Sarkozy's speeches and actions

Sarkozy said it, but did he do it? A few days after his speech before the Congress in Versailles, Terra eco wanted to return to the declarations of the candidate and the President of the Republic on the environment, and put them to the test of the facts.

Chapter 1: green taxation.

Karine Le Loet
Journalist at Terra eco (Paris).

Green taxation is almost childish. His vocation? Encourage individuals and businesses to opt for less polluting products, to consume less energy or to release less greenhouse gases towards the atmosphere. The way ? Lighten the financial balance for good students while putting more taxes on the backs of polluters. But here, to be ambitious, the program of Nicolas Sarkozy seems difficult to keep. And the NGOs are already calling for urgency, preferring imperfect tools (a climate-energy contribution calculated on the sole consumption of energy for example) but applicable quickly and easily ... In terms of green taxation, the best is sometimes the enemy of good.


The facts and what follows: http://www.planete-terra.fr/Chapitre-1- ... ,1431.html
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