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Environmental taxes: Key findings for Argentina

This country note provides an environmental tax and carbon pricing profile for Argentina. It shows environmentally related tax revenues, taxes on energy use and effective carbon rates.

Environmental taxes: Key findings for Denmark

This country note provides an environmental tax and carbon pricing profile for Denmark. It shows environmentally related tax revenues, taxes on energy use and effective carbon rates.

Environmental taxes: Key findings for Chile

This country note provides an environmental tax and carbon pricing profile for Chile. It shows environmentally related tax revenues, taxes on energy use and effective carbon rates.

Environmental taxes: Key findings for Austria

This country note provides an environmental tax and carbon pricing profile for Austria. It shows environmentally related tax revenues, taxes on energy use and effective carbon rates.

Environmental taxes: Key findings for Estonia

This country note provides an environmental tax and carbon pricing profile for Estonia. It shows environmentally related tax revenues, taxes on energy use and effective carbon rates.

Environmental taxes: Key findings for Brazil

This country note provides an environmental tax and carbon pricing profile for Brazil. It shows environmentally related tax revenues, taxes on energy use and effective carbon rates.

OECD Tax Talks #3

With a number of important recent and upcoming developments in the OECD's international tax work, the OECD's Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (CTPA) gave the latest tax update.

Tax Policy Reforms in the OECD 2016

Tax policy reforms driven by focus on boosting growth

While fiscal consolidation was the key driver of tax reforms in the years+33 following the global economic crisis, the main emphasis of recent tax reforms has shifted back to tax measures aimed at boosting economic growth, according to a new OECD report.

Fiscal incentives for R&D and innovation in a diverse world

Fiscal incentives, including tax policies, should be directed at specific barriers, impediments or synergies to facilitate the desired level of investment in R&D and innovations. Without careful design, policies can have unintended consequences such as favouring incumbent firms, encouraging small firms to undertake less efficient activities, or creating arbitrage and rent-seeking activity.