{"id":62480,"date":"2019-05-09T12:28:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T10:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/rafael-villaseca-current-energy-taxation-is-not-always-given-priority-when-it-comes-to-solving-the-environmental-problems-that-gave-rise-to-the-tax\/"},"modified":"2019-05-09T12:28:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T10:28:08","slug":"rafael-villaseca-current-energy-taxation-is-not-always-given-priority-when-it-comes-to-solving-the-environmental-problems-that-gave-rise-to-the-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/rafael-villaseca-current-energy-taxation-is-not-always-given-priority-when-it-comes-to-solving-the-environmental-problems-that-gave-rise-to-the-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Villaseca: \u201cCurrent energy taxation is not always given priority when it comes to solving the environmental problems that gave rise to the tax.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cAn environmental tax should serve its purpose, in other words, environmental tax revenues should go towards funding expenditure on improving and protecting the environment.\u201d This is one of the principles that underlies the Naturgy Foundation\u2019s new study, \u2018La fiscalidad energ\u00e9tica. Sentido, objetivos y criterios\u2019, drawn up by the\u00a0tax adviser Juan Carpizo<\/b>\u00a0and the\u00a0lawyers Eugenia Monta\u00f1a and Teresa Checa, who specialise in energy taxes.<\/b><\/p>\n

When presenting the book, the Chairman of the Naturgy Foundation, Rafael Villaseca<\/b>, explained it provides data that makes it possible to determine whether the tax revenues are used for their intended purpose. \u201cFrom the compilation and assessment carried out in the study, it can be deduced these taxes basically serve a collection purpose in our country today,\u201d said Villaseca, adding that \u201ccurrent energy taxation is not always given priority when it comes to solving the environmental problems that gave rise to the tax.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the book, the authors say \u201cwe cannot find any tax whose priority is to contribute to reducing polluting behaviour or promoting a more efficient use of energy.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the study, they insist that \u201can environmental tax should tax harmful effects on the environment caused by those activities that give rise to them\u201d, based on the general principle of environmental taxation, namely \u201che who pollutes pays, but that means everyone who pollutes, not just some\u201d. That is the European Union\u2019s view, adopting a principle where the OECD led the way in 1972 in its Recommendation on the \u2018Guiding Principles concerning International Economic Aspects of Environmental Policies\u2019.<\/p>\n

The book reminds readers that one of the main challenges in relation to EU environmental policy and legislation is \u201cto improve environmental taxation, as well as reduce subsidies that are harmful to the environment\u201d and, in this regard, \u201cenvironmental taxes are a key piece\u201d. However, in the last decade, different rules and focuses have been adopted on a regional and even a local level.<\/p>\n

See the press room<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Naturgy Foundation today presented \u2018La fiscalidad energ\u00e9tica. Sentido, objetivos y criterios\u2019, a book which identifies and describes the taxes and tax charges levied on the various stages of the energy cycle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1454,"featured_media":62329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[700],"tags":[1005,1006],"content-type":[],"acf":[],"post_class":["post-62480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-and-the-environment","tag-publications","tag-taxation","wordpress-sticky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62480"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=62480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}