THE ROLE AND IMPORTANCE OF TAX POLICIES IN PREVENTING ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (original) (raw)
Environmental pollution has been a vital issue day by day due to the increase of production and consumption activities, the rapid increase of the world population and varieties of people’s needs accordingly. The dream of leaving an indigenous and unpolluted nature for the future generations has been getting difficult because of polluting the nature and besides since no measures have been adequately taken to prevent pollution of the environment. Today the states have used the tax policies to reach the goals on environmental policy and by taxation of factors damaging environment, it has been mainly aimed that those who degrade the environment should bear the penalty of the degradations they do, rather than increasing public incomes. Environmental taxes are known as green tax, carbon tax, emission tax and pollution tax in the literature. In this study, at first it will be explained the contributions of environmental taxes and their implementations in different countries in the literature, then compared environmental taxes in our country with implementations in different countries; finally the lacks on this topic and some theoretical approaches will be analyzed. Keywords: Environment, Pollution, Tax, Tax Policy
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