A Revenue Neutral Tax
The political appeal of a revenue neutral carbon tax is clear.
A revenue neutral tax. What should be the revenue neutral rate. The intent and impact of a carbon dioxide tax is to raise the. The rate is required to be calculated and published by local governments but need not actually be adopted for the coming fiscal year. In fact our model estimates that a 1 46 value added tax would provide enough revenue on a dynamic basis to replace the corporate income tax in full increasing long term gdp by 6 5 and not losing any federal revenue in the long run.
Could a revenue neutral carbon tax be the first step to fight climate change. Try as tax reformers might to make the tax code simpler shorter fairer less intrusive flatter or less progressive. The revenue neutral tax rate is a bundle of contradictions. It is intended to make the property tax reappraisal and rate setting process more transparent but instead it often muddies the waters.
A carbon dioxide tax may be crafted to be government revenue neutral but it cannot be crafted to be household revenue neutral. For instance a revenue neutral provision may require individuals to pay less tax but corporations will pay correspondingly more taxes. This has been a contentious issue. Revenue neutral tax reform implies that taxation is not government theft.
The rate is required to be calculated and published by local governments but need not actually be adopted for the coming fiscal year. The concept was the decisive factor in drafting the tax reform act of 1986 whereby provisions estimated to add revenue were offset by others estimated to reduce revenue so that on paper the new bill would generate the same amount of revenue as the old tax. This increased tax rate has been called the revenue neutral rate rnr. Therefore even a vat with a rate of less than 5 would be sufficient to eliminate the corporate income tax and stay revenue neutral in the long run.
About john sweeney june 19 2019 6 30 am. The government had set up several committees to arrive at such rate. The revenue neutral tax rate is a bundle of contradictions.