Environmental tax reform in the Czech Republic

Abstract

About the Czech environmental tax reform, it can be said that its concept is not very well known even to its principal stakeholders. The reason is the little promotion: the absence of explanatory campaigns. The support to dealing only with existing local environmental problems and the opposition to introducing an environmental tax reform aimed at combating climate change connected with consistent revenue recycling points at a certain short-sightedness, cause probably largely by the lack of awareness of the risks as well as advantages of the environmental tax reform approach where the revenues are fully recycled. It is here that foreign experience in terms of evaluating the environmental tax reform impacts on economies and environment may play a key role in the promotion and implementation of the Czech environmental tax reform. And also, further increases of the CO2 tax rates in the Czech Republic should be preceded by a quantification of its impacts on the Czech economy using e.g. CGE or the E3ME model, or other techniques. When you are citing the document, use the following link http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/13651