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Environmental tax reform: increasing individual incomes and boosting innovation

News Published 09 Jan 2012 Last modified 10 Dec 2019

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European governments could simultaneously reduce income tax, increase innovation and cut pollution by introducing well-targeted environmental taxes and recycling the revenues back into the economy. This was one of the findings from a pair of reports on environmental tax reform (ETR) published today by the European Environment Agency (EEA).