Getting Energy Prices Right: From Principle to Practice

By Ian W.H. Parry, Dirk Heine, Eliza Lis, Shanjun Li

July 22, 2014

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Ian W.H. Parry, Dirk Heine, Eliza Lis, and Shanjun Li. Getting Energy Prices Right: From Principle to Practice, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2014) accessed December 21, 2024

Summary

Energy taxes can produce substantial environmental and revenue benefits and are an important component of countries’ fiscal systems. Although the principle that these taxes should reflect global warming, air pollution, road congestion, and other adverse environmental impacts of energy use is well established, there has been little previous work providing guidance on how countries can put this principle into practice. This book develops a practical methodology, and associated tools, to show how the major environmental damages from energy can be quantified for different countries and used to design the efficient set of energy taxes.

Subject: Environment, Expenditure, Fuel tax, Greenhouse gas emissions, Health, Non-renewable resources, Public expenditure review, Taxes

Keywords: Africa, BOOK, Congestion cost, Corrective tax, Country, Country-by-country damage assessments, Environmental damage, Environmental damage assessment, Fuel tax, Global, Non-renewable resources, North America, Policy reform, Public expenditure review, Tax, Western Europe

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