The aim of this group is to collect proposals and assessments of tax policies for sustainable public financing. Proposals can concern new ways of taxing or reforms to the current tax systems. Proposals on taxation of the digital economy, environmental taxation and international taxation for enhancing developing economies are of great interest. Ideally, the group seeks for consolidated conjunction between tax policy and the SDGs.
Innovation Policy Network Author: Nadia Lorena Grutter In recent years, the environmental toll of AI has surged to alarming levels. In 2024, Microsoft reported total market-based emissions (encompassing Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions...
Innovation Policy Network Author: Nadia Lorena Grutter In recent years, the environmental toll of AI has surged to alarming levels. In 2024, Microsoft reported total market-based emissions (encompassing Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions...
Author: Jacob Margolis - ESG Policy Hub Coordinator, Innovation Policy Network On 5 February 2024, the European Council and European Parliament collectively reached a temporary agreement on a proposal for regulations on...
The IMF has announced the winners of the Climate Innovation Challenge. PortWatch, a platform l aunched on November 15 and developed by the IMF and the University of Oxford. This innovative platform enables real-time monitoring of...
The IMF has published a useful research document on Tax capacity building in developing countries. Tax capacity—the policy, institutional, and technical capabilities to collect tax revenue—is part of a deeper process of state...
As part of the ongoing work of the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS (Inclusive Framework) to implement the Two-Pillar Solution to Address the Tax Challenges Arising from the Digitalisation of the Economy, the Inclusive...
OECD
The OECD has launched a new initiative to coordinate policy measures aimed at decarbonization. The Inclusive Forum on Carbon Mitigation Approaches (IFCMA) is an initiative designed to help improve the global impact of emissions...
Environmental taxation can be a good response to the post-covid economic crisis if designed in the proper way. In the upcoming Bloomsbury publication, my colleagues and I discuss some ideas of policy design for a post-covid...
When adopting a carbon tax in the system, we do not want it to be vexatious for poorer households. Is it possible to construct a carbon tax in a way it does not become too burdensome for the less wealthy?
On the 24th-25th September, the Global Conference on Environmental Taxation will take place online at the Vermont Law School. See the programme here: https://www.vermontlaw.edu/GCET21/Program Many proposals for reform of...
Vermont Law School
