Sentences with phrase «pricing tax scheme»

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Up until the 1980s, Janigan writes, the federal government employed price controls, tax restrictions and export schemes to keep western largesse flowing East.

A year later, at the end of 2017, McKenna clarified that provinces have until the end of the year to introduce carbon - pricing schemes, whether they be carbon taxes or cap - and - trade regimes.

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Yesterday the Herald revealed that agreement had been reached to start the scheme for three years with a fixed price on carbon - a de facto carbon tax - before it becomes an emissions trading scheme in which the market would set the price.

STRUGGLING manufacturing firms are experiencing a carbon tax squeeze, the greenhouse scheme adding 14.5 per cent to energy bills, but many are unwilling to raise prices.

But take out Davey's hidden taxes (carbon price floor, emissions trading scheme, etc) and we'd be paying an average # 123 less.»

Last year scientists writing in the journal Nature Climate Change suggested cutting methane emissions by pushing up the price of meat through a tax or emissions trading scheme.

We are instead pressing ahead unilaterally with terrible policies: draining the budgets of families and businesses with excessive green taxes; picking losers by giving the most generous subsidies to the most expensive sources of low carbon energy; and recreating the volatility of the housing market with an emissions trading scheme where the supply of allowances is fixed, so fluctuations in demand lead to wild swings in the price.

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Mr Baker argued the government should be focusing on introducing a national road pricing scheme which could replace road taxes.

The Liberal Democrats have consistently said that we will only support a national road pricing scheme if it is a different way of taxing motoring, not an additional way of raising revenue.

Mayor Bill de Blasio was in attendance for Cuomo's speech and, in a news conference afterward, praised certain aspects of it, such as Cuomo's promise to fight the federal tax overhaul, while taking a wait - and - see approach as the governor still did not unveil a congestion pricing scheme, and outlining a few of the city's top priorities for the upcoming state budget, like more funding for the mayor's plan to extend pre-school to all three - year - olds.

This week, House Democrats are beginning their push for a cap - and - trade scheme that makes big promises, but amounts to little more than a national energy tax that will destroy countless jobs and raise energy prices on families and small businesses already struggling during this recession.

This price, which essentially transforms the trading scheme into a tax, must be high enough so that it sends a credible signal that emitters must invest in technologies and practices that lower carbon emissions.

The move to «ax the tax» — as Prime Minister Tony Abbott is fond of saying — makes Australia the first country in the world to abolish a functioning carbon pricing scheme.

The (UK specific) paperwork for the scheme says that if no gain was made on the share price, the act of getting your capital back is treated for tax purposes as «cash cancellation of unapproved share options» and no tax is due, however there is a reporting obligation and it tells me which box on my tax return I should put the details in.

Alongside the politics of the carbon tax, a floor price, a linking to Europe or whether a direct investment scheme would be better than a market - based scheme, the bottom line surely must be whether any carbon emissions actually are being saved.

But a review of studies regarding carbon pricing schemes from around the world by economist Tom Tietenberg concludes that «they typically find that the cost savings from shifting to [taxes or cap - and - trade] are considerable, but less than would have been achieved if the final outcome had been fully cost effective.»

We just need to recognize prices very real limits and use it to best drive technological change (I proposed earlier last year a carbon tax scheme that funds innovation, for instance).

The whole argument for an emissions trading scheme as opposed to cutting emissions via a carbon tax or simply by regulation is that it is cheaper - in other words electricity prices will rise by less to achieve the same level of emission reductions.

Both the provinces of coastal British Columbia and oil - sands - rich Alberta have implemented some version of a carbon tax or a hybrid carbon pricing scheme.

And of course my favorite non-BRICS, as it has a very USA - like economy in miniature (except a stable, growing economy and well - managed low - corporate - tax haven that uses direct democracy to decide tax issues) with a carbon cycle pricing scheme that could become a model for a made - in - America policy that puts revenues from carbon - emission - pricing in the pockets of the owners of the carbon cycle — the citizens, directly, British Columbia.

It's just a matter of which carbon pricing scheme we use to capture them — either the carbon tax, or a California - led regional cap and trade system that B.C. is still considering joining.

The main argument for a carbon tax rather than a trading scheme is that, if there is a lot of uncertainty about the cost of reducing emissions, and not much uncertainty about the damage caused by climate change, a fixed price for emissions (that is, a tax) will get closer to the optimal outcome than a fixed quantity.

In July, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard unveiled a national carbon tax on that country's 500 worst polluters, after her predecessor was turfed from office when his own carbon pricing scheme withered on the vine.

It differs from how I would do it, as does the British Columbia Revenue Neutral Carbon Tax (successful and growing in popularity for 4 years now), the Australian Pricing Mechanism, or any of the Cap & Trade schemes or various carbon taxes that return nothing to the owners of the carbon cycle.

Closing the Gap to a Paris - compliant EU - ETS Carbon pricing, whether via cap - and - trade schemes or taxes, is not sufficient on...

On January 29, 2014, we searched Factiva — an online research tool for accessing content from different sources (viz. newspapers, journals, and magazines)-- for newspaper articles containing statements regarding the future costs of Australia's carbon pricing scheme — commonly referred to as the «carbon tax».

There are still other things Chinese cities can do at the margins, such as introducing the sorts of «congestion pricing» schemes — taxes on vehicles as they enter certain areas — that have worked wonders in places like London and Singapore.

He was the perfect front man when the mining industry wanted to spend big destroying Labor's mining tax and win massive concessions from the carbon price scheme.

This question gives me an opportunity to make a serious point about carbon pricing schemes ETS or tax).

Carbon pricing, whether via cap - and - trade schemes or taxes, is not sufficient on its own to achieve the objective of the Paris Agreement.

The list is long and worth many billions (sorry for caps); — GREENHOUSE GAS ABATEMENT PROGM (Carbon capture)-- NON-RECOVERY OF PUBLIC AGENCY COSTS — PETROLEUM EXPLORATION TAX CONCESSIONS — RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE — DIRECT SUBSIDIES TO FOSSIL FUEL PROJECTS — DIESEL FUEL REBATE SCHEME — EXEMPTION FROM EXCISE FOR ALTERNATIVE FUELS Ethanol production which is an energy sink)-- CONCESSIONAL RATE OF EXCISE FOR FUEL OIL, — HEATING OIL AND KEROSENE — CONCESSIONAL RATE OF EXCISE FOR AVIATION FUEL — EXCISE FREE STATUS FOR CONDENSATE — SUBSIDISED SUPPLY OF COAL - FIRED ELECTRICITY TO — ALUMINIUM SMELTERS — STATE ENERGY SUPPLY CONCESSIONS — ELECTRICITY PRICING STRUCTURES — SUBSIDIES FOR CENTRALISED GENERATION

Looking forward, things to watch include: the impact of economic recovery on commodity prices and agricultural expansion for food and biofuels production; large - scale land acquisition by foreign nations and corporations in tropical countries; climate negotiations and the REDD mechanism, including controversies over land rights, «offsetting», forest definitions, and sustainable forest management; the emergence of payments for ecosystem services beyond REDD; the cap - and - trade versus carbon tax schemes; efforts to address the demand side of deforestation — notably consumption; emerging certification systems for agricultural and forestry products (i.e. RSPO, Aliança da Terra, FSC, etc); and Brazil's progress in meeting its deforestation reduction targets.

This is an argument in favour of emissions trading schemes with a price floor, or a carbon tax.

I've been following discussions of solar energy on - and - off for quite a while, and it has always seemed as if it would be quite a long time, even assuming an emissions trading scheme or carbon tax, before solar photovoltaics could be a cost - competitive source of electricity without special support such as capital subsidies or feed - in tariffs set above market prices.

The Galileo Movement's primary aim is to oppose any price on carbon dioxide emissions, or any carbon tax or carbon trading scheme in Australia.

A year later, at the end of 2017, McKenna clarified that provinces have until the end of the year to introduce carbon - pricing schemes, whether they be carbon taxes or cap - and - trade regimes.

Following up on my last comment, at 199 million tons of C02 per year, what would be the impact on the coal export schemes if there were a Carbon price, be it through a cap and trade system or direct tax?

Carbon pricing schemes, like carbon taxes and cap and trade, provide a disincentive to do this by forcing polluters to pay for the carbon they dump.

It is worth pausing there to consider that the independent power - pricing authority is saying businesses will face even bigger rises in power bills because of the green schemes and that these rises - not those related to the carbon tax - have been the fastest - growing part of power bill rises in the past two years.

And, of the $ 316 - a-year rise in power bills in NSW because of various green schemes, levies and the carbon price, Gillard's «great big new tax» accounts for most but nowhere near all the increase.

Abbott made much of the carbon tax price rises in state budgets yet other green schemes are costing consumers just as much.

Bad policies: • Penalty schemes • Targets and timetables • More regulations • Taxes, penalties and restrictive trade policies • Carbon pricing • Renewable energy • Aid / bribes

There are many proposals on the table to price carbon: carbon taxes, carbon fee & dividend, polluter penalties, and cap and trade schemes.

If you seriously believe in markets, you should believe that given the right incentives — namely, putting a price on emissions, through either a tax or a tradable permit scheme — the economy will find lots of ways to emit less.

Now there's also a third difference and this is possibly the most important one: My plan mandates revenue neutrality for the $ 100 per tonne federal carbon tax, and it incentivizes provinces to make their carbon pricing schemes — whether it's a cap - and - trade system or a carbon tax — revenue neutral as well.

This is a floor price cap scheme not strictly a carbon tax which in theory doesn't have exemptions and deductions.

While this sounds like a sensible proposition, it plays into Abbott's strategy of framing Labor's emissions trading scheme and other carbon pricing measures as a «great big tax.»

I am strongly in favour of the Government extending its «Help to Buy» scheme to assist first - time buyers and indeed second - time buyers where appropriate, and I would also recommend that first - time buyers are relieved of the burden of Stamp Duty Land Tax up to a maximum purchase price of # 500,000.