Literature Review: Unraveling in Carbon Tax Policy and Options

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10.2991/978-94-6463-525-6_31How to use a DOI?

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Carbon Tax; Tax Policy; Unfair Carbon Tax Policy

Abstract

Criticisms of inequitable carbon pricing and steps taken to address them will be explored in this research. The method used was literature review based on scientific articles which have related to the pros and cons of carbon tax policy. Results of discussion showed that people may believe the tax is unfair because they anticipate it will have unfair effects (distributional fairness), or they may believe it is unfair because of a procedure such as the fact that the tax decision was made without discussing the impacted actors. The analysis said that the equality principle might be theoretically intriguing, as demonstrated with the famous “equality of what” argument, empirical research frequently refers to equality either in processes i.e., before the distribution or in consequence i.e., after the distribution. Then the conclusion comes that the equality principle, emission reductions should either be divided equally i.e., everyone should lower their emissions by the same amount or distribute in a way that produces more evenly distributed emissions. Although the equity principle is more complex than the need-satisfaction or equality principles. The proposal may require that politicians, bureaucrats and the general public all feel more comfortable knowing that each institution is “controlled”. Where such respect is lacking, a more realistic command and control technique can be implemented, even though the individual being controlled may not find the alternative approach ‘tolerable’.

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AU  - Kartika Putri Kumalasari
AU  - Sifa Arsyanda
AU  - Arik Prasetya
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/10/29
TI  - Literature Review: Unraveling in Carbon Tax Policy and Options
BT  - Proceedings of the 2023 Brawijaya International Conference (BIC 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 271
EP  - 281
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-525-6_31
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-525-6_31
ID  - Kumalasari2024
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