Obtain authoritative guidance on environmental taxes in 20 major countries world-wide. 

Environmental Taxes: A Global Perspective provides expert guidance into how environmental taxes and policies are re-shaping life and industry.   This wide-ranging report is vital for its expert insight, country-specific examples and cases.  It provides you with an indispensible overview of how environmental policies have been integrated into law and everyday life.

Refer to the expert guidance covering vehicle taxation, fuel consumption, product taxes and important Energy Bills and Acts.  In addition read about the steps that countries are taking to ensure a more efficient environmental policy.  With reference to the Stern Review, the Kyoto Protocol and renewable energy, this report is essential for every practitioner concerned with becoming "green". 

Contents Include:

· Foreword
Nick Goulding, Chartered Institute of Taxation

Introduction

·  Using Taxation to Achieve Environmental Objectives: The Green Tax Agenda Matures
Barbara E Bell, KPMG, United Kingdom

· Carbon Trading: Can't see the Wood for the Trees?
Owen Lomas and Claudia Warren, Allen & Overy

· Good Product, Bad Product? Making the Case for Product Levies
Julie Hill, Hannah Hislop and Anne-Emmanuelle Bégin
Green Alliance, London

Country Specific Cases

Europe and the Middle East

· Environment and Taxation: A Belgian Overview
Prof. Dr. Isabelle Richelle, Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick, Belgium

· Ecological taxes in the Czech Republic
Petr Neskrabal, Deloitte, Prague

· Israel: Green Taxes and Electric Cars
Henriette Fuchs, Tadmor & Co Attorneys at Law, Tel Aviv

· Italian Environmental Taxes
Paolo Tognolo, Dottore Commercialista - Studio Tributario Tognolo, Italy

· Taxation makes the Polluter Pay: A Green Tax System
Trudy Perié and Maurice Mies, Loyens & Loeff N.V., Netherands

· Joint Implementation Projects in Russia: Theory and Practice
Max Gutbrod and Sergei Sitnikov, Baker & McKenzie, Moscow

· Excise Duties on Fuel and Electricity in Sweden and other Economic Instruments
Fredrik Jonsson, Öhrlings PricewaterhouseCoopers, Stockholm

· Tax Issues for Buyers and Sellers in the CER Market
Greg Sinfield and Fiona Bantock, Lovells LLP, London

Asia Pacific

· Floating the Carbon Dollar in Australia
Brendan Bateman, Clayton Utz, Australia

· China Tax System Going Green
Alan Wu, PricewaterhouseCoopers, China

· Hong Kong: Green Taxes and their Debate, Enforcement and Future
Dr Daniel Cheung, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

· New Zealand: Movement from Carbon Tax to Emissions Trading
Rachel Devine, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts, New Zealand

· Environmental Taxation Trends in Pakistan
Minam Jafri, Samlaw Associates, Karachi

· Environmental and Energy Tax Reform in Taiwan: Seeking a Balance
Josephine Peng and Leo Tsai, Lee & Li, Taiwan

·  Environmental Taxes in Thailand
Peerapan Tungsuwan and William McKay
Baker & McKenzie, Bangkok

The Americas

·  Finding an Energy Tax Policy for the United States
Clint Stretch, Deloitte Tax LLP, United States

·  Environmental Compensation and the New Perspectives for its Application in Brazil
Pedro l. Baracuí and Miguel F. Frohlich, Barbosa, Müssnich & Aragão Advogados, Brazil

Appendices

Appendix One
·  Saving the Planet - Can Tax and Regulation Help?
John Manning and Neville Howlett
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, United Kingdom

Appendix Two
·  The Kyoto Protocol

Appendix Three:  Recent Developments

·  Canada: Liberals propose national carbon tax

·  European Union: Automakers call for uniform CO2-based car tax

·  Guernsey: "Green tax is unfair"

·  Japan: Environmental tax to be considered

·  Namibia: Enviro law to be enforced soon

·  Northern Ireland: Environment Minister launches Environment Agency

·  Norway: Date advanced for going carbon-neutral

·  South Africa: Carbon tax tagged as green solution

·  Sweden: Carbon tax solution to climate change puts it top of the green list

·  United Kingdom: Stern publishes post-Kyoto recommendations

·  Venezuela: Product Stewardship