Talk:Environmental tax

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move in the light of new evidence. &mdash; Nightst a  llion  (?) 07:42, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Move comment

 * The move request should probably be to "Environmental tax". Notice the lowercase 't'. --Davidstrauss 09:13, 9 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose Green tax shift is the common used term. See naming conventions. Ardenn  03:28, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Not moved. &mdash; Nightst a  llion  (?) 07:45, 15 May 2006 (UTC)


 * If this is about the German tax proposals (Ökosteuer), the entry should probably be moved to Ecotax, as per ~ trialsanderrors 08:48, 15 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Support: The article is listed on the list to translations from German to English, so it does pertain to the German tax proposal. The title Ecotax would therefore probably be appropriate, with Environmental tax and Ecology tax redirecting to it.(Patrick 12:54, 15 May 2006 (UTC))
 * This is English Wikipedia, and I know that the Green Party of Canada and Green Party of Ontario certainly promotes the Green tax shift, with that wording. What is the most common usage in English? Ardenn  03:56, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
 * It looks like Ecotax is more common in Europe and GTS in North America. Ecotax wins the googlefight by a mile, although I don't give too much credence to that. Are there official sources in North America that sponsor GTS? I'm kind of wary to accept the Green parties as unbiased sources. ~ trialsanderrors 07:30, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I've only heard it used by the GPC and GPO, so I wouldn't know. Sorry. Ardenn  15:53, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, I'm not sure about it myself, but I'll put in a move request. So what responses it triggers. ~ trialsanderrors 18:24, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Requested move to Ecotax

 * Green tax shift → Ecotax … Rationale: Closest approximation to the original German Ökosteuer, it also seems the predominant form in Europe. … trialsanderrors 18:15, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

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 * Support as the nom. After some more googling this seems to be the prevalent form in Europe, which gives the topic more attention than NA, and is also closest to the German original. ~ trialsanderrors 07:26, 18 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose I got here because I was looking for 'Green Shift' not ecotax. Ecotax is just a tool, 'Green Shift' is an event, or movement. Historians will speak of the 'Green Shift' when they speak of the tendency towards ecotaxes instead of income taxes.   User:Tokamax 21:33. 9 decemeber 2008

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 * To summarize: Ecotax seems to be the preferred form in Europe, and is endorsed by the European Environmental Agency. Green tax shift is endorsed by the Green Parties of Canada and Ontario, although we're still looking for non-partisas sponsors. It is also possible that the terms don't mean the same thing (a shift is a change in taxation rather than a tax), but it is not clear that the terms need separate entries. All opinions and contributions welcome. ~ trialsanderrors 18:24, 16 May 2006 (UTC)


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My article
Can I add a link to a series of articles I wrote on a green tax shift?

http://www.ozpolitic.com/green-tax-shift/green-tax-shift.html

Ozfreediver 07:03, 10 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Try integrating your points made and references used, into this article (or other wikipedia articles) instead of just linking to your article. Chendy (talk) 10:28, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Comments on the move
not sure if this is where I am allowed to respond. Anyway, a green tax shift is actually two concepts, a green/eco tax, and a tax shift, which implies that it is revenue neutral. This would indicate that GTS should not be used, but I like to see the terms linked, mainly for political reasons.

Ozfreediver 07:04, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Taxes affected
surely article should focus on taxes that will be introduced not "Examples of taxes which could be lowered or eliminated by a green tax shift:" - as every tax will be affected. Chendy (talk) 10:36, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Good idea. -- Explodicle (T/C) 14:23, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Intro paragraph needs some rework
The last sentence of the current article:
 * "The Pigovian taxes that are introduced by such a policy - see below"

....has thrown the intro off. The sentence obviously suffers from poor grammar, but more succinctly I believe it doesn't belong in the intro paragraph since its providing an explicit description (elaboration) of the various taxes in the next section.

Can someone bring in some expertise to rework the first two sections? Simply removing the sentence completely may detract from the article and be counterproductive. Tnx --HarryZilber (talk) 15:34, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Severance Tax
The line severance tax is wrongly forwarded right back to this "Ecotax" page.

Recommend fixing this with a separate page on Severance tax. e.g. See Instapedia's entry http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/severance-tax.asp

"What Does It Mean? What Does Severance Tax Mean? A tax imposed on the removal of nonrenewable resources such as crude oil, condensate and natural gas, coalbed methane and carbon dioxide.

Severance tax is charged to producers, or anyone with a working or royalty interest, in oil or gas operations in the imposing states. You may be charged severance tax even if you do not realize a net profit on your investment.

Investopedia Says Investopedia explains Severance Tax Certain wells may be exempt from severance tax based on the amount they produce. Different states have different rules. For example, in Colorado, as of 2008, an oil well that produces less than an average of 15 barrels per producing day, or a gas well that produces less than an average of 90,000 cubic feet per producing day, is exempt from this tax.

It is important to note that severance tax is different from income tax, and you still have to pay all federal and state income taxes on oil and gas income in addition to severance tax."DLH (talk) 19:21, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 14:04, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

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Requested move 13 November 2022

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The result of the move request was: moved. per WP:COMMONNAME (closed by non-admin page mover) Vpab15 (talk) 18:43, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Ecotax → Environmental tax – Please place your rationale for the proposed move here. Dan Polansky (talk) 17:32, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

Rationale: the term "environmental tax" seems to be the winner per Google Ngram Viewer. Furthermore, as a double check, the search for the term finds: You can run your own search to double check. In any case, "ecotax" seems to be far from the leader. --Dan Polansky (talk) 17:32, 13 November 2022 (UTC) --Dan Polansky (talk) 17:32, 13 November 2022 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Environmental_tax_statistics
 * https://data.oecd.org/envpolicy/environmental-tax.htm
 * https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/the-global-tax-program/environmental-taxes
 * https://www.gov.uk/green-taxes-and-reliefs "Environmental taxes, reliefs and schemes for businesses"
 * Support per nom. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:10, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. "Ecotax" sounds like a promotional neologism, and I don't remember encountering it in any formal context. No such user (talk) 14:27, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose but Support Alternative Move: move but not to Environmental tax per current article revision and Pigouvian tax article. The historical term is Effluent charge per Google Ngram; Environmental tax is itself a neologism as it has only become more common since the 1980s. Pollution tax was also more common before the 1980s than Environmental tax and is the second most common now, and Emissions tax was also historically more common than Environmental tax, Green tax, and Ecotax. The name of the article should reflect that it is a tax on a negative externality. — CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 23:34, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Delogu 1967, Ferrar & Horst 1967, Dorcey 1973, Morse 1973, Rose-Ackerman 1973, Russell 1979, and Lo & Chen 1997 per Google Engine search of "Effluent charge"; see also Free to Choose (1980) (pages 213–218), the Alston Kearl & Vaughan 1992 survey, Fuller & Geide-Stevenson 2003 survey, and the 2014 edition of Greg Mankiw's introductory macroeconomics textbook. -- CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 14:51, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
 * The term "effluent charge" can be mentioned as a synonym in the article (if it is a perfect synonym), but I do not see why, in 2022, we should not pick the Google Ngram Viewer winner for all years after 2000, which is environmental tax. And it wins easily in Scholar: effluent charge: 2,100 hits; environmental tax: 27,900 hits. The article title should not reflect that it is a tax on negative externality since environmental taxes are only subclass of such a tax. The fact that the term "effluent charge" does not contain the word "tax" is also not ideal: it is neater to have "environmental tax" to be a hyponym of "Pigouvian tax". It is also not clear that environmental tax is the same thing as effluent charge: taxing raw materials would be environmental tax but would have nothing to do with "effluents": it would simply reduce the resource exhaustion rate. I don't think that the links to historic sources provided above should have higher weight than the 4 modern sources I provided: why should the encyclopedia be moving back in time?
 * "a neologism as it has only become more common since the 1980s": a term more common for over 40 years is not "neologism" by any stretch. --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:14, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
 * As an aside, German "Umweltsteuer" is an analog of "environmental tax"; the same story for Russian "экологический налог". (That's no conclusive argument, more of a completing the picture.) I don't see why the first word of the term must point to the thing to be diminished, and modern sources I linked to do not think so either. In "Pigouvian tax", "Pigouvian" does not refer to the thing to be diminished either. One should not worry too much about term design and look at frequencies and most common use in mainstream modern sources. The term "environmental tax" makes a good sense anyway: it is a tax designed to ensure protection of the environment. --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:20, 18 November 2022 (UTC)