The Study On Tax Policy For Promoting Sustainable Energy Usage

Energy is the basis of national economic and social development. China is the biggest developing country in the world. As our rapid economic development,industrialization and urbanization process accelerated,a lot of questions have been caused,such as the contradiction of energy supply and demand,irrational energy structure,a serious waste of energy,low energy efficiency,grim energy security situation,etc. Energy and environment problem has become the very important factor affecting the development and safety of a country,and China is getting more and more pressure on this problem from the international society,so it is very necessary for our country to implement energy-conservation and emission-reduction. The Chinese government has realized very early that the energy problem has become the restraint of economic development. In order to realize the sustainable development of economy and society,it has put forward comprehensive,harmonious and sustainable scientific development concept and strategic thought which are dedicated to promote the comprehensive and harmonious developments of economy and society,human and nature.Tax policy is the kind of established guidelines and the corresponding measures used by government to achieve certain macroeconomic objectives. As an important tool for macro-control, various tax policy instruments can play an irreplaceable and important role in the promotion of energy at reasonable usage. The author uses theoretical analysis and practical analysis,comparative research methods to analyze currently related tax policies towards sustainable usage of energy,and then on the basis of foreign energy-related tax policies in practical experience,gives some proposals to improve China's energy tax policies towards sustainable usage.The article is divided into five chapters. The first part is an introduction, describes the background of topics of significance, the main content and research methods. Secondly,from China's energy production and consumption of the current situation,the author explains the strategy of sustainable usage of energy in China for a period of time,combines with the importance of energy in the National economic usage and externality theory to prove the need of government to carry out macro-control in the energy field. After that,using the principles of economics,from the aspect of energy production, consumption,investment,industrial structure to explain how the tax plays an important role in successfully promoting sustainable energy usage and achieves the goal. Then in the third section,the author shows a more detailed series of our energy tax policies and writes a brief summary of the energy tax policy issues. In part four,the author summarizes the practical experience of foreign tax policies towards energy which can be used as a source of reference by our country. Finally,in the stand of the overall trend to promote our tax system,the author analysis earlier problems, of the reform of China's energy tax policy recommendations.