Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/155168 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 5.2001
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
This paper focuses on the relationship between tax reforms and environmental quality in Italy. First, we analyse some of the characteristics of the tax system. Within a dynamic model, we estimate the marginal distortion introduced by different taxes and show that the system is far from being optimal, at least in terms of efficiency. We then consider some possible tax reforms, keeping into account both the effect on utility and the impact on pollution. Finally, we design a tax reform with a specific environmental goal, i.e. the reduction of polluting emissions by 10%, and show the economic effects of this policy.
Subjects: 
Tax reforms
environmental taxes
general equilibrium
JEL: 
H2
D62
D58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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