Environmental Taxation

A Review of OECD Country Experience and
Prospects for Economies in Transition

By
ANIL MARKANDYA
and
ZSUZSA LEHOCZKI

REC Paper Series, number 1




Acknowledgement

The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe gratefully acknowledges the authors of this paper, Anil Markandya of the Harvard Institute for International Development,1 Eliot Street, Cambridge MA 02138,United States, and Zsusza Lehoczki of the Hungarian Ministry of Finance, Jozsef Nador t. 2-4, Budapest, Hungary.


Authors' Note

An earlier version of the paper was presented at a seminar on "The Use of Economic Instruments for Natural Resource and Environmental Protection in the Baltics", April 26-27, Tallinn, Estonia. Our thanks are due to the participants at that seminar, as well as to those who participated in the earlier OECD Workshop on Taxation and the Environment, March 1993, for many helpful comments and suggestions. All ideas expressed here are, however, our own and not necessarily those of the institutions with which we are associated.


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