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Cap-and-trade or carbon tax? Both!
The Vancouver Sun gives some ink to a cluster of issues that I've been pondering of late: how BC's carbon tax shift fits with Cap and Trade. I'm famously infatuated with carbon tax shifting. I'm also a zealot for auctioned Cap and Trade ...

No guts, no glory. No risk, no reward.
That number of support increases to the 70’s when asked what they thought of a carbon tax shift which included an incentive/reward program for those who do very well under this plan. Dion and the Liberals have the opportunity to gave ...

Let’s the Liberals take this punch - happily.
And, there is a well-reasoned fear that implementing a carbon tax shift would, in fact, drive the already-ridiculously-high cost of fresh produce up even higher. But there is some hope. Some economists with a green bent are considering ...

Carbon tax shifts?
A: If I were czar of climate policy, I would take the best features of BC's carbon tax shift and integrate them into a comprehensive, auctioned, regional cap-and-trade system with built-in buffers for working families. ...

Cap-and-trade or carbon tax? Both!
By Alan DurningThe Vancouver Sun gives some ink to a cluster of issues that I've been pondering of late: how BC's carbon tax shift fits with Cap and Trade. I'm famously infatuated with carbon tax shifting. ...

Cascadian Carbon Tax Shifts?
And no Cascadian jurisdiction outside of British Columbia has displayed any interest in enacting a carbon tax shift in the next year or three. (But they might enact a comprehensive, auctioned, regional . . . ) ...

Cap-and-Trade or Carbon Tax?
Personally, I’m disinclined to weigh in on Dion’s proposed carbon tax (or “tax shift”) until details of the plan are revealed (where the proverbial devil resides). Warren Kinsella offers his gloomy assessment this morning, ...

One Thing Is Clear
The fact any tax shift comes with risk, is actually a testament that Dion is acting on principle first, pandering an afterthought. Nuts and bolts aside, it is refreshing to see a measure of conviction, a calculation that starts with a ...

School budget a 'tax shift,' Pickens says
"It's a fund shift. It was done without sleight-of-hand. It was done right in front of everybody." The tax shift was vetted with representatives of "about 20" school districts, he said. The tax shift is sure to be vigorously debated ...

Tax Shift Presentation
Solve4Biggies.com, which was started in 2007, says the best solution is a phased-in, federal tax shift from income to non-renewable energy. Decreasing taxes on the ‘good’ stuff (income) and increasing taxes on the ‘bad’ stuff ...

Oh, Canada!
On February 19, one of my colleagues at Sightline applauded British Columbia's new carbon tax shift. I've now had time to digest the plan. It's even better than we said, and the province could tweak it to make it better still. ...

Phenneger Clarifies Position on Tax Ads
Tax shift is not “tax relief,” US Senate candidate says Richard Phenneger, Republican candidate for US Senate from Idaho, asserts in his latest advertising campaign that Gov. Jim Risch’s tax relief program actually cost hundreds of ...

Shift is the word that might work
Although as explained earlier, the Liberals should never use the words "carbon tax" at any time anywhere since it obviously such a election disaster in the hands of modern political operatives, the word "shift" is starting to sound like ...

Analysis of McCain's Health Care Plan
Confused press coverage and McCain's shift to other issues have obscured the magnitude of his proposal. But he may be pushing for greater changes than the Democrats in both the way Americans pay for health insurance and how they buy ...

Make a carbon task costly
Here's his idea in a nutshell: he's going to tax heating oil and other carbon emission sources, but not gasoline. Then he's going to cut your income tax. The whole thing is going to be a shift of $15 billion of so. ...

"We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes,” in ...
At last week’s meeting of the voters Joakim slyly said that she did give her constituents a fraction of what they asked for (a 15% tax shift), but then voted against her people, sic. “Because the tax savings was only $25 for people in ...

Shifting Language on Taxation
You could only keep the tax shift intact by a massive cost reduction program. Otherwise, the taxes get cranked up again pretty soon. Or, most likely, the scheme stays revenue neutral because the consumption of carbon never drops and the ...

Inflation, tax shift or simply a mark-up?
Tax shift? Or simply a mark up? Ironically, most big corporations are not being taxed except for Brunei Shell. The government should really step in and look into this matter. Companies should not undermine the consumers intelligence, ...

Tax Shift
Lesley Stedman Weidenbener has an article in the Courier Journal reporting on the analysis by Everybody’s Favorite Economist ™, Larry Deboer, finding that most property owners will benefit under the recent tax restructuring and most ...

The First Carbon Tax Shift
Initially, it will tax carbon dioxide emissions at $10 per ton, and the tax will rise to $30 a ton over the next five years. There will be matching income tax cuts, so this is not actually an added tax but a tax shift that is revenue ...

HOME TAX HIKE FEARED IN MARKET-VALUE PLAN
E-mails are floating around saying that the change in rules would shift the burden of property taxes from commercial and industrial property to residential. Allen County Assessor Stacey O’Day said that is possible, but it is too soon to ...

BC's Carbon Tax Shift
With the release of the annual budget today, provincial officials just announced that they will levy a carbon tax to help drive down emissions. Even better, the carbon tax will be a tax shift -- surely the best instance of tax shifting ...

We wanted policy and now we've got it. Sort of.
By now, everyone has heard the Liberals are thinking about implementing a carbon tax, a carbon tax shift, call it whatever you want. Actually, for those paying close attention the musing has been going on for some time. ...

How much of a tax shift? - take 2
From an abstract by Future Survey (January 2008) of Lester Brown's Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization a Tax Shift is needed - "a worldwide carbon tax of $240/ton to be phased in at the rate of $20/year between 2008 and 2020 ...

DEMS TARGET MCCAIN’S TAX SHIFT
Democrats civilize to advise McCain’s ordered policy.

Tax shift presentation
A few organizations have asked for presentations on tax shifting to solve our environmental and energy problems. Here it is: The collision of capitalism, global warming and peak oil PowerPoint (1 MB ) .pdf version (665 KB ) (need Adobe ...

BC’s Carbon Tax Shift — Revenue Neutral is a matter of perspective
BC’s carbon tax has folks talking about tax incidence or who will see what carbon price, and recycling incidence, or who will get what back. BC business will see 2/3 of the overall incidence and consumers will see 1/3, but the recycling ...

American Dream
His study concluded that “a shift to a national sales tax has the potential for dramatically improving incentives to save” (Kotlikoff). Only necessities such as food, medicine, and rent, purchases would not be taxed. ...

Towanda School Board discusses putting referendum for tax shift ...
... School District Education Foundation and discussed whether to put a referendum question on the ballot again that would ask voters whether they wish to convert the district’s school occupation tax to a higher local earned income tax.

Panel debates tax shifting as a greener way forward
Despite heated debate, the panel managed to agree that low-income families would be paying the highest price if the government were to implement a tax shift because those families spend a larger proportion of their income on energy ...

Disingenuous theater - congress and big oil
The federal government should enact a phased-in tax shift from income to non-renewable energy which will provide a REAL incentive for conservation and a stimulus for the renewable energy industry.] Lastly (from the article): ...

School budget a 'tax shift,' Pickens says
When the new state budget landed on legislators' desks Monday, Democrats quickly discovered a $365-million increase in property taxes statewide for schools next year -- despite what they recalled was a commitment by House GOP leaders ...

Idaho House passes bill that seeks to end tax shift
The Idaho House has sent to the Senate a bill that seeks to reduce property taxes levied by counties by changing the formula that local governments use to calculate the addition of new construction. The measure passed on a 41-27 vote. ...

Another View On How Bad TIFs Are For The Taxpayers
District 47 Estimates $9 Million Tax Shift If All Three Crystal Lake TIFs Approved. Over one hour and twenty minutes after the Crystal Lake City Council meeting began, Grade School District 47 Superintendent Ron Miller was the first one ...

Carbon and Tobacco
I think a tax shift to carbon pollution would be very similar. Many people are addicted to overuse of products that release carbon into the air. We all know that this is a bad thing and we all want to stop it. ...

Will the Tax increase on Pre-mixed alcohols stop Binge drinking?
Sunshine Coast MP Mark McArdle said simply introducing a tax increase on pre-mixed alcohol drinks was not the way to deal with the problem of binge drinking. “This will simply shift binge-drinkers from ready-to-drink cans with ...

Been living under a Popsicle stick?
The "pay now" will add inflationary pressure but this will be minimized by phasing-in the tax shift. "Paying now" has a huge return on investment including GREEN JOBS as the US becomes a leader in renewable energy technologies for ...

Boos and hisses, ala Nineteenth Century melodramas, are encouraged ...
The shifty-eyed councilors could have adopted a 1.5 to 1 tax shift, which means the evil landlords’ taxes would. increase $4.4 million,. while homeowners’ taxes would be. cut $4.4 million. Homeowners would get a 6% tax cut. ...

Ballot initiatives and non-democratic Democrats
In spite of the boost from sales taxes, property taxes also began to creep back up and today are not terribly below where they were before the “tax shift.” These increases were not supposed to happen — the “need” for them had been ...

Dion touts carbon tax, billions in tax cuts
The plan, according to sources, would shift the 10-cent federal excise tax on a litre of fuel at the pumps into a broad-based carbon tax that would also apply to other fuels, such as for home heating. Sources say that the plan would not ...

In Tax Shift, Nortel Takes $1.1B Charge
Hugh Q4 noncash writedown, along with job cuts by the Toronto-based phone equipment giant, come as its ex-CFO and ex-controller still face Mounties' fraud complaint based on a 2004 probe.

federal Tories join Stelmach in opposing market solutions
We have a left leaning province implementing a carbon tax shift, a perceived left leaning organization, the David Suzuki Foundation, supporting a national carbon tax shift and a conservative government preferring regulations. ...

A federal tax shift is really step 2
Here's information on how your tax dollars are propping up non-renewable energy industry profits and creating a huge barrier to a sustainable energy future.....including subsidies for Exxon Mobil - ...

Victory
James Town debate that he did not support a carbon tax. The next day at the Rosedale debate, he said we needed to put a price on carbon in the form of a “tax shift.” At the final public debate in the St. Lawrence on March 11th, ...

This tax shift and our economy
2) This tax shift will create long-term jobs. Where are the jobs of the future? Are developing countries going to invest in huge centralized power plants and electric grids OR decentralized, renewable systems? ...

Dems Target McCain's Tax Shift
April 15th is Tax Day which means it's as good a ... day as any to chart the distance John McCain has traveled on taxes. Back in 2001, McCain voted against President ...

Journal Gazette on property tax bill: "Historic" tax increase
At the bill-signing Wednesday, the governor and House and Senate leaders focused on future property-tax relief, but the immediate tax shift is why Fort Wayne Democrats Phil GiaQuinta and Win Moses voted against it. ...

Revaluating Revaluation
Revaluation in West Hartford has caused a tax shift to homes and citizens from business real estate and personal property. The phase-in of revaluation lets that tax shift (in part reflected as an increase in taxes for homeowners) occur ...

Superhero Henry Waxman and coal-to-fuel
(Or, we could enact a tax shift to recognize the external costs of the GGE's and these plants would never make it off the drawing board because of poor return on investment.) Enter Henry Waxman "'We don't want new sources of energy that ...

THE RUBBER, I MEAN THE CARBON HITS THE ROAD
They are telling the public a carbon tax will mean a massive tax hike on gasoline, home heating fuel and electricity. Senior Liberal sources say he will try to frame the carbon plan as a “revenue shift” or “tax shift,” not a tax. ...

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Kingston lawmakers set to debate proposed shift in tax burden
KINGSTON - City lawmakers will begin talks this week on a proposal by Mayor James Sottile to shift the majority of Kingston's property tax burden from businesses to homeowners.

Consumers may cover business tax bills
Marion County's reassessment shifted tens of millions of dollars of the property tax burden away from homeowners and onto businesses, but those businesses might shift some of the cost right back to residents with higher prices for everything from a cup of coffee to apartment rents to recoup the expense.

Hays ESD: Vote will shift tax burden
Long and winding roads are normally avoided when South Hays County volunteer firefighters rush to the scene of a fire or wreck — but that’s just what their governing board had to take to fulfill a promise made a year ago.

Tax relief shift spells heartbreak for hotels
THE abolition of tax relief for hoteliers building new premises or extending their existing properties will cost the hospitality industry millions of pounds each year.

Suzuki slams NDP, Tories, backs Dion's carbon tax
Famed environmentalist David Suzuki has strongly backed Liberal leader Stephane Dion's emerging carbon tax plan and slammed the NDP and Conservatives.

South Africa: SARS Shifts Income Tax Focus to Employers
The South African Revenue Services (SARS) on Thursday announced that the responsibility of completing and submitting Personal Income Tax (PIT) forms would shift to the employer for the 2008 Tax Season.

Amherst IDA gives Key Bank tax break
The Amherst Industrial Development Agency, after some sharp discussion Friday, approved a sales tax abatement requested by Key Bank to renovate its call center on Main Street at Eggert Road.

Countywide fire tax rejected
Frederick County won't be getting a countywide fire tax any time soon.

Expert outlines pros, cons of tax relief
SCHERERVILLE | The recent property tax relief legislated by the Indiana General Assembly has many implications -- both good and challenging -- to local government and taxpayers, an official with the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns said Friday.

The suicidal allure of a carbon tax
OTTAWA — If a carbon tax is to define and decide the next federal election in Liberal favour, Stéphane Dion will have to be a ghostbuster. Even though he seems blissfully oblivious, the Liberal leader's bold gambit is haunted by the bad memory of too many other big ideas.

Top websites

Green Tax Shift
Policy statements, commentary, and other resources about ecological tax reform.

Tax shift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tax Shift for the Pacific Northwest (Durning & Baumann 1998) ... Sharing the Wealth (a web site opposing what they perceive as a tax shift) ...

Ecotax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
... in which case it is known as the green tax shift towards ecological taxation. ... Tax shifting usually includes balancing taxation levels to be revenue-neutral ...

Citizens' Guide to Environmental Tax Shifting
It has been called a tax shift, green tax reform and eco- logical taxing. ... at will from people and commerce, tax shifting transforms rev ...

Tax Shift — Sightline Institute
Tax Shift is a program for using the tax system to get more of what we want, such as flusher bank accounts, clean air, and healthier communities.

Santa Clara Magazine - The green tax shift
The economics of ... The green tax shift would make the question of social ... Is a green tax shift the answer? Join SCM's discussion on the economics of ...

Shifting Gears: Rethinking Property Tax Shift Relief
... funds from the mitigation measures than they lost from the property tax shift. ... think strategically about any funds proposed for property tax shift relief. ...

Green Taxes — Sightline Institute
... publications, and ideas for using Cascadia's tax system to improve the region's long-term ... Tax Shift. Spread Clean Technology with Feebates. A ...

Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in ...
The purpose of the Earth Policy Institute is to provide a vision of what an environmentally sustainable economy will look ... tax shift designed to convert 30 ...

Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth. Chapter 11 Tools for ...
... is how to generate public support for the wholesale tax shifting that is needed. ... The way tax shifting works can be seen in the table compiled by Worldwatch ...

Posts in groups

Re: I'm depressed....

...: The thing is that only taxes on the individual don't drive... paid 'em to our stockholders. Tax us and you're indirectly taxing...of course you don't pay taxes on the profits you don't...Congress calls it a "windfall" and taxes the hell out of you. ...to see business taxes (actually, pretty much _all_ taxes) shifted to individual ...for what sorts of things are taxes as "imputed income" -- and before ...

Re: I'm depressed....

...or 2%%, IIRC. The whole income tax system is dumb. It penalizes the...a serious benefit from the income tax. Interest on "municipal" bonds is non... rating. Get rid of the tax, and cities, states, municipal utilities, ... IRS, but millions of accountants, tax lawyers, Enrolled Agents, people working ...to see business taxes (actually, pretty much _all_ taxes) shifted to individual ...

Re: No New Left solution for Plutocracy's sub-prime loan crisis!

...of the USA government: instead of taxing people, they lend from the rich...their military adventures from the general tax payer. Only the suckers- lower and...a speculative real asset boom via tax cuts and debased the currency to... don't know. Their GST (tax) takes back another 10%% of ... the bills, the GST or similar VAT, is a massive tax shift by the plutocrats onto the...

Re: No New Left solution for Plutocracy's sub-prime loan crisis!

No New Left solution for Plutocracy's sub-prime loan crisis!

...their military adventures from the general tax payer. Only the suckers- lower and... the middle and lower classes. Tax cuts make it more essential ...It disappears into their pockets in tax cuts, to be replaced by ... speculative real asset boom via tax cuts and debased the currency ... of the masses. Their GST (tax) takes back another 10%% of ... similar VAT, is a massive tax shift by the plutocrats onto ...

No New Left solution for Plutocracy's sub-prime loan crisis!

Books

Tax Shift: How to Help the Economy, Improve the Environment, and Get the Tax Man Off Our Backs (New Report, No. 7)

Reversing the tax shift: The opportunity to Minnesota's taxes progressive

A critical analysis of historical shifts in Wisconsin state and local financing, tax policy and tax burden: A green paper

Incidence and allocation effects of a state fiscal policy shift: The Florio initiatives in New Jersey (NBER working paper series)

Is shift to sales tax good for the economy? (Indiana Indicators).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included): An article from: Indiana Business Magazine

A federal "moratorium" on internet commerce taxes would erode state and local revenues and shift burdens to lower-income households

Growth & taxes, the keystone of fiscal health: A dynamic analysis of the consequences of the property tax shift (Briefing)

A conceptual framework to compare environmental tax shift policies (Working paper series on environmental tax shifting)

Fair dues: many people underestimate the significance of the shift to fair value accounting in the process of converging international accounting standards. ... An article from: Financial Management (UK)

Distributional impacts of an environmental tax shift: The case of motor vehicle emissions taxes (Discussion paper)