TY - JOUR
T1 - A second-best tax for litter abatement
AU - Kohn, Robert E.
AU - Pines, David
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements-Kohn was a visiting professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem when this paper was begun. Pines gratefully acknowledges financial assistance from the Foerder Institute for Economic Research. We thank Uri Marinov. Yitzhak Gil. Shlomo Brovendar and Uri Amit, Director General and staff members, respectively, of the Environmental Protection Service of Israel and Zev Ellenbogen, Deputy Director of the Economic Planning Authority of Israel. for useful background information and Richard C. Porter and David E. Wildasin for very helpful comments. One of the early working papers [6] that we sent to the Environmental Protection Service for comments was inadvertently reproduced in their Isruel Enrironmenr Bulletin.
PY - 1990
Y1 - 1990
N2 - To combat a serious litter problem in Israel, a law has been enacted that authorizes fines for littering and imposes an ad valorem tax on disposable beverage containers. This tax, which has been controversial, can be justified on second-best grounds, given constraints on the magnitude of the fine and on the quantity of resources available for enforcement, and given that beverages in disposable containers and littering are net complements. In this paper, the optimal second-best tax rate is estimated and found to exceed the current ad valorem tax rate on containers.
AB - To combat a serious litter problem in Israel, a law has been enacted that authorizes fines for littering and imposes an ad valorem tax on disposable beverage containers. This tax, which has been controversial, can be justified on second-best grounds, given constraints on the magnitude of the fine and on the quantity of resources available for enforcement, and given that beverages in disposable containers and littering are net complements. In this paper, the optimal second-best tax rate is estimated and found to exceed the current ad valorem tax rate on containers.
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U2 - 10.1016/0038-0121(90)90023-Z
DO - 10.1016/0038-0121(90)90023-Z
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AN - SCOPUS:34248295622
SN - 0038-0121
VL - 24
SP - 1
EP - 9
JO - Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
JF - Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
IS - 1
ER -