Tax and the Environment

Download or read book Tax and the Environment written by Anuschka Bakker and published by IBFD. This book was released on 2009 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the opportunity to save taxes and the environment. It provides a thorough overview of both environmental taxes and tax incentives related to environmentally friendly investments and activities. It starts with a general introduction into the principles of environmental taxation and then, by looking at a set of 13 countries, the book provides an analysis of tax measures in the field of direct and indirect taxation with regard to the environment. It concludes with a comparative overview of the tax measures in the countries discussed.