title: [VOCs tax policy on China's economy development].
abstract: In this paper, environmental tax was designed to control volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emissions. Computable general equilibrium (CGE) model was used to explore the impacts of environmental tax (in forms of indirect tax) on the macro-economy development at both national and sector levels. Different levels of tax were simulated to find out the proper tax rate. It is found out that imposing environmental tax on high emission sectors can cause the emission decreased immediately and can lead to negative impacts on macro-economy indicators, such as GDP (gross domestic products), total investment, total product and the whole consumption etc. However, only the government income increased. In addition, the higher the tax rate is, the more pollutants can be reduced and the worse economic effects can be caused. Consequently, it is suggested that, the main controlling policies of VOCs abatement should be mandatory orders, and low environmental tax can be implemented as a supplementary.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080 China. liuchagxin08@mails.gucas.ac.cn
authors.forename: Chang-Xin
authors.initials: CX
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Yu-Fei
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Hai-Lin
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Zheng-Ping
authors.initials: ZP
authors.lastname: Hao
authors.forename: Zheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis / Q000592:standards*; D000397:Air Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control; D002681:China; D057217:Economic Development; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D013660:Taxes / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D055549:Volatile Organic Compounds / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D055549:Volatile Organic Compounds