Taxing energy use : a graphical analysis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, author, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Energy tax.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Paris] : OECD, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The taxation of different sources and uses of energy (particularly those that give rise to emissions of greenhouse gases) will play a key role in governments' efforts to mitigate the scale of global warming and climate change. At present, effective tax rates vary widely across different sources and uses of energy within countries, as well as across countries. This publication provides the first systematic statistics of such effective tax rates - on a comparable basis - for each OECD country, together with 'maps' that illustrate graphically the wide variations in tax rates per unit of energy or

Contents:

pt. I. Overview

pt. II. Country profiles.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

92-64-18393-0

OCLC:

830162858