A Pigouvian tax (also spelled Pigovian tax) is a tax on any market activity that generates negative externalities (i.e., external costs incurred by third...

intervene in the market, using an emission tax for example to create a more efficient outcome; this Pigouvian tax is the optimal policy prescription for any...

alternative to Pigouvian taxation, it has been argued that in a hold-up situation Coasean bargaining may actually justify a Pigouvian tax. Alternatively...

to consider environmental impacts. Ecotaxes are examples of Pigouvian taxes, which are taxes on goods whose production or consumption creates external costs...

allocated to those who value it most, presuming non-drought years. A Pigouvian fee is an emission fee exactly equal to the aggregate marginal damage...

promote the tax as an example of a Pigouvian tax, aimed to discourage unhealthy diets and offset the growing economic costs of obesity. Tax design approaches...

be compensated. Under the same reasoning most of them also consider pigouvian taxes as compensation for environmental damage or privilege as acceptable...

types of taxes: corporate tax, individual income tax, and sales tax, including VAT and GST and capital gains tax, but does not list wealth tax or inheritance...

opportunities (see geolibertarianism). Related taxes derived in principle from the land value tax include Pigouvian taxes to internalize the external costs of pollution...

which does not apply to wages over an annual limit. So-called "sin taxes" (pigouvian taxes) levies imposed on goods and activities deemed harmful to individuals...