The rise and fall of French Ecological Tax Reform: social acceptability versus political feasibility in the energy tax implementation process

Deroubaix, José-Frédéric; Lévèque, François

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2004.08.047

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“…Dresner et al (2006) also find a strong preference among the respondents for measures that would bring visible environmental benefits, preferably local benefits. These findings are complemented by the result that respondents often reject suggestions to spend the revenues on other measures: Deroubaix and Lévèque (2006) find that people view is as "nonsensical to link the implementation of an energy tax and the reduction of labour taxes".…”

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confidence: 80%

A choice experiment on fuel taxation and earmarking in Norway

Sælen

Kallbekken

2011

Ecological Economics

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A choice experiment on fuel taxation and earmarking in Norway

Sælen

Kallbekken

2011

Ecological Economics

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“…Taxes and charges are quite effective instruments for changing consumer behavior, compared to, for example, information-based instruments [39]. They can contribute to sustainable consumption by incorporating the environmental and social costs of products and processes into final prices [40] and by taxing environmentally damaging products and activities [41][42][43]. This would have an effect on both industries and consumers, and would make environmentally and socially responsible choices economically beneficial and normalized in society.…”

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The Role of Formal and Informal Forces in Shaping Consumption and Implications for a Sustainable Society. Part I

Mont

Power²

2010

Sustainability

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Abstract:Addressing climate change and the collapse of ecosystems without threatening the economy, while simultaneously improving the well-being of all people and ensuring social justice and equality, seems to be the largest challenge in the history of mankind. So far, all the efforts to address growing environmental and human problems through technological solutions and policy measures have been largely outpaced by growing population and increasing consumption levels. Therefore, an understanding of the essential driving forces and complexities of consumption, and of how environmental impacts from rising consumption can be reduced, is becoming increasingly important. This understanding can be achieved by analyzing not only economic frameworks, political settings, business models, and technological innovations, but also social norms, psychological factors, and collective and individual decision-making processes. This article, Part I, provides a meta-analysis of the main political, economic, technological, and business drivers of contemporary consumption and offers a systematic discussion of the relevance of these factors for the instigation of change towards sustainable patterns and levels of consumption. The main conclusion from Part I and II is that a systems-thinking approach is required in order to understand how various political, technical, social, economic, and psychological drivers overlap and influence each other in creating our consumer society. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2010, 2 2233

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“…We use Switzerland as a laboratory of study, but the divergence between economists and the general public on the benefits of environmental taxes is a recurring obstacle to environmental tax reforms all around Europe (Dresner et al 2006). The unpopularity of carbon taxes has hampered their implementation in France (Deroubaix and Lévèque 2006), while fear of competitiveness effects led to massive exemptions in Scandinavian countries, decreasing the potential for any sizeable environmental effect (Baranzini and Carattini 2014). Similar obstacles seem to reduce the popularity of carbon taxes in emerging economies, too (Gevrek and Uyduranoglu 2015).…”

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Green Taxes in a Post-Paris World: Are Millions of Nays Inevitable?

Carattini

Baranzini

Thalmann

et al. 2017

Environ Resource Econ

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Turning the Paris Agreement's greenhouse gas emissions pledges into domestic policies is the next challenge for governments. We address the question of the acceptability of cost-effective climate policy in a real-voting setting. First, we analyze voting behavior in a large ballot on energy taxes, rejected in Switzerland in 2015 by more than 2 million people. Energy taxes were aimed at completely replacing the current value-added tax. We examine the determinants of voting and find that distributional and competitiveness concerns reduced the acceptability of energy taxes, along with the perception of ineffectiveness. Most people would have preferred tax revenues to be allocated for environmental purposes. Second, at the same time of the ballot, we tested the acceptability of alternative designs of a carbon tax with a choice experiment survey on a representative sample of the Swiss population. Survey respondents are informed about environmental, distributional and competitiveness effects of each carbon tax design. These impacts are estimated with a computable general equilibrium model. This original setting generates a series of novel results. Providing information on the expected environmental effectiveness of carbon taxes reduces the demand for environmental earmarking. Making distributional effects salient generates an important demand for progressive designs, e.g. social cushioning or recycling via lump-sum transfers. The case of lump-sum recycling is particularly striking: it is sufficient to show its desirable distributional properties to make it one of the most preferred designs, which corresponds to a completely novel result in the literature. We show that providing detailed information on the functioning of environmental taxes may contribute to close both the gap between acceptability ex ante and ex post and the gap between economists' prescriptions and the preferences of the general public.

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The rise and fall of French Ecological Tax Reform: social acceptability versus political feasibility in the energy tax implementation process

Cited by 60 publications

References 1 publication

A choice experiment on fuel taxation and earmarking in Norway

A choice experiment on fuel taxation and earmarking in Norway

The Role of Formal and Informal Forces in Shaping Consumption and Implications for a Sustainable Society. Part I

Green Taxes in a Post-Paris World: Are Millions of Nays Inevitable?

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