Benefits Analysis of Energy Tax Reform

Abstract

Sustainable economic growth of a country needs support from energy industry. The limitation and environmental problems caused by energy makes the governments to re-examine their energy strategies. As an important tool for national macro-control, tax policy has an irreplaceable role on the promotion of conventional energy conservation, sustainable use and introduction of new energy sources. More and more theories and practices have proved that the energy tax is beneficial to conservation and utilization of energy. At present, China has yet to levy a special energy tax. There are many problems in energy taxes, so we have to reform our current energy taxes. Evaluation of the effect of the reforms can be judged in many ways. In this article, we will analyze it from a social welfare perspective, trying to build an optimization of the energy tax system in order to achieve social welfare maximization.