| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23250 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23250 |
| Vertical and Horizontal Redistributions from a Carbon Tax and Rebate | |
| Julie Anne Cronin; Don Fullerton; Steven E. Sexton | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-03-20 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Because electricity is a higher fraction of spending for those with low income, carbon taxes are believed to be regressive. Many argue, however, that their revenues can be used to offset the regressivity. We assess these claims by employing data on 322,000 families in the U.S. Treasury’s Distribution Model to study vertical redistributions between rich and poor, as well as horizontal redistributions among families with common incomes but heterogeneous energy intensity of consumption (different home heating and cooling demands). Accounting for the statutory indexing of transfers, and measuring impacts on annual consumption as a proxy for permanent income, we find that the carbon tax burden is progressive, rising across deciles as a fraction of consumption. The rebate of revenue via transfers makes it even more progressive. In every decile, the standard deviation of the change in consumption as a fraction of consumption varies around 1% or 2% and is larger than the average burden (about 0.7%). When existing transfer programs are used to rebate revenue, the tax and rebate together increase that variation to more than 3% within each decile. The average family in the poorest decile gets a net tax cut of about 1% of consumption, but 44% of them get a net tax increase. Relative to no rebate, every type of rebate we consider increases this variation within most deciles. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; Taxation ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Energy ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23250 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580924 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Julie Anne Cronin,Don Fullerton,Steven E. Sexton. Vertical and Horizontal Redistributions from a Carbon Tax and Rebate. 2017. |
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| w23250.pdf（658KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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