ecotax

These ideas are also known as an Ecotax or green tax shift.

The energy tax - and this needs to be emphasised - is not an ecotax.

Sometime, the fuel tax is used as an ecotax, to promote ecological sustainability.

Agalev gave its support in exchange of a tax on bottles, the first ecotax in Belgium.

We could probably consider certain proposals such as postponing the ecotax, but what we cannot do is propose one thing and then its complete opposite.

The model of ecotax, short for ecological taxation, has been enacted in Germany by means of three laws in following years.

The regional government of Balearic Islands (then held by an ecosocialist coalition) established an ecotax in 1999.

LVT is an ecotax because it ostensibly discourages the waste of locations, which are a finite natural resource.

Buses, taxis and other forms of short-distance public transport have only paid the mineral oil ecotax at 1.5 Cent/litre for their fuel.

The polluter pays principle underpins environmental policy such as an ecotax, which, if enacted by government, deters and essentially reduces greenhouse gas emissions.

Following OPEC's positive stance on production quotas, which is connected to the ecotax debate, prices have steadily risen from the lows of March.

Mr President, in my view, far more attention should be paid to promoting public transport; one alternative, as someone has already suggested, would be an ecotax on the airline industry.

In Germany, for example, the dual system enables operators as a whole to participate in the ecotax, whatever the origin, be it a third country or another Member State.

In my opinion Europe cannot in the long run avoid introducing a taxation system that does not tax the employment factor and goes further than the ecotax and energy levies we are already familiar with.

The Green Fiscal Commission (GFC) is a British body set up to examine the best way of implementing green taxes (also known as ecotax) in the United Kingdom.

The Liberal Party of Canada under Stéphane Dion placed the environment at the front of its political agenda, proposing an ecotax and tax shift it called the Green Shift.

The walk Some of the money raised through the new and controversial ecotax in the Balearics has gone into the development of a series of guided walks concentrating on different aspects of Palma's history.

Even so, few people expect the conservatives will scrap the so-called ecotax on fuel, which the Green Party pushed for in 1998 when it took over the environment ministry in a coalition with the Social Democrats.

Together with the Green Party of Switzerland, the Social Democrats have common environmentalist policies, which are reflected in the expansion of ecotax reforms and increased state support for energy saving measures and renewable energies.

Alternatively, an ecotax can have a "lifeline" design, in which modest consumption levels are priced relatively low (even zero, in the case of water), and higher consumption levels are priced at a higher rate.

Do you not think, Commissioner, that this way of achieving the target, namely the reduction of waste, which I am otherwise in favour of, is distorting the market through the imposition of an ecotax or deposit money?

In June 2008, Dion unveiled the new policy called The Green Shift (le Tournant vert) and explained that this tax shift would create an ecotax on carbon while reducing personal and corporate income taxes.

Often, an ecotax policy proposal may attempt to maintain overall tax revenue by proportionately reducing other taxes (e.g. taxes on human labor and renewable resources); such proposals are known as a green tax shift towards ecological taxation.

However, in Belgium, the ecotax system in place which obliges operators from another Member State to include the accreditation reference of each of their distributors, is a heavy system, which causes a certain level of protectionism.

I supported the measures which seek to introduce differentiated taxation; we should increasingly consider taxes on oil products as an 'ecotax', designed to penalise fossil fuels for their negative external costs, such as their non-sustainability and their contribution to the greenhouse effect.