Sentences with phrase «carbon tax rate increases»

Control of the economy is an outcome of «The rate of infrastructure replacement, thus economic activity, can be modulated (a.k.a. regulated) by how fast the carbon tax rate increases.»

The rate of infrastructure replacement, thus economic activity, can be modulated by how fast the carbon tax rate increases.

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Williams said the Heritage estimate was correct based on the methodology the foundation used — the analysts estimated a carbon tax rate of $ 36, which would increase by 3 % each year from 2015 to 2035.

The Notley government has already done plenty to increase revenues, including corporate tax hikes, bigger rates for high - income earners and a much - maligned new carbon tax.

We also note with concern that the new small business payroll tax comes on top of previously announced minimum wage increase (of 34 % over four years), an increase in the general corporate tax rate of 9.1 %, a 14 % increase to the personal income tax rate of most «skilled professionals», and a previously scheduled increase in the BC carbon tax of 16 %, moving up a further $ 5 to $ 35 per tonne of GHGs emitted.

Shortly after assuming office, the government made B.C.'s tax regime less competitive by raising the general corporate income tax rate, creating a new top personal income tax rate and increasing the carbon tax.

Ric McIver was riffing on the by - now familiar point that the NDP govâ $ ™ t was not actually creating jobs but killing them with its new taxes and the threat of royalty rate increases and a carbon tax, e...

Ric McIver was riffing on the by - now familiar point that the NDP gov» t was not actually creating jobs but killing them with its new taxes and the threat of royalty rate increases and a carbon tax, e...

The increased corporate tax rate, the increased carbon tax (and its changed status of being no - longer - revenue - neutral), and the increases to personal income tax rates at management and professional - earning levels are all problematic for the business community.

Taking each factor independently, the team found that CCS only achieves the necessary deployment under one of the following conditions: the price of oil is greater than $ 85 / barrel; the carbon tax incentives increase dramatically to above $ 75 per tonne of carbon dioxide by 2050; or learning rates for technology deployment are sustained at a high rate, with 14 % cost reduction for every doubling of deployment.

Results from the study showed indicated that with carbon taxes set at $ 50 per ton and increased at a rate of 5 % per year would lead to a reduction in the total greenhouse gas emission in the US by as much as 63 %, confirms Reilly.

But a carbon tax that increases over time at a persistent and predictable rate would minimize the expected economic cost of achieving any climate target (targets that depend, given the way the climate system works, on cumulative emissions over many decades).

Given uncertainty, I like the idea of a carbon tax that increases according to the rate at which we are approaching «unacceptable» climate change.

This heartening development signals that it's not too soon to focus on the design of a U.S. carbon tax, especially its magnitude and rate of increase, as CTC senior policy analyst James Handley does in this post.

His proposal, introduced on Earth Day at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, would tax carbon dioxide and CO2 equivalents from methane and other sources at a rate of $ 30 per metric ton, increasing annually at 4 % above inflation.

It took 1000 + pages to explain the carbon trading system in Waxman - Markey — I can explain this plan in two sentences: Institute a federal carbon excise tax on fuels whose rate increases with the carbon content per btu of the fuel.

To keep revenues up, carbon tax rates must continually increase as emissions decline.

Tonight's rate hike, in which a tonne of carbon will rise from $ 25 to $ 30, is the last in a series of increases scheduled with the introduction of the tax in 2008.

Reuters says, «The tax would begin at a rate of 10 yuan ($ 1.59) per tonne of carbon dioxide, and gradually increase depending on a company's emission levels.»