A Study On The Carbon Tax In Promoting The Coordinated Development Of Regional Economy

Environment problem is becoming more severe, and climate warming isincreasing faster, which result in that the international society start to explore and tryany countermeasure as they can find. The carbon tax, as a policy to motivate peopleto save energy and reduce emission, has been relatively mature in terms of boththeory and practice. There are complete carbon tax in The European and California inAmerica, while Australia and japan are trying to levy carbon tax. All of above give uslots of valuable lessons for introduce carbon tax.Lots of Chinese experts and scholars have spent many years to study carbon tax,but there isn’t one agreed opinion until now, either the authority haven’t givenspecified suggestion and pilot policy. Combing with the existed conclusion fromthese scholars, perspective from promoting coordinated development of regionaleconomy, this paper studied Chinese carbon tax system deeply, which intends to yieldthe greatest positive function instead of negative effects. By absorbing the frontier offoreign professors’ research, summarizing other countries’ practical experience,rethinking the dispute about our carbon tax problem, and considering the economicdevelopmental period, geographic features, environment and so on, the author comesup some key points of our carbon tax system in theoretic aspect. By virtue ofprevailing econometric model at present and the latest data from NBS, the authorintimates and assesses the effect of levying carbon tax, intending to forecast thehidden troubles that will come out after carrying out. This will let us consummatecarbon tax at beginning. At last, the paper enrich and perfect the tax policy, from theoutline of tax element.The paper includes four sections. The first section is called concept introductionand writing background, which tells us definitions, the reason and significance, andalso state foreign and native study about carbon tax, list the theory used in this article,only aims to have some innovation. The second section introduces carbon taxpractice in other countries, such as Finland, Denmark, Netherland, America andAustralia. Some European countries have taken carbon tax many years, from who wecan learn a lot. While only a few states of America have taken carbon tax, we can getsome selective experience based on the similar situation. And Australia is our guiderwho have just started carbon tax. The third section analyzes the influence that carbontax on, includes regional economic development, emission reduction, incomedistribution and tax burden balance. We find that the influence mechanism is complex,and the consequence is uncertain, which depends on the carbon tax design. The lastsection is policy suggestion, which gives out the principle of carbon tax-taking, thefactors of carbon tax-design and other supporting auxiliary measures, aiming tofurther improve the mechanism of the carbon tax and strengthen the result.When designing carbon tax policy, the author think more about balancedeconomic development between regions, regional main function orientation andresidents income gap between one region, which give the authorities morecomprehensive angle. We hope that this paper may widen the road of our countrydeveloping low carbon economy, also add more vigor for sustainable development ofthe economy of our country.