Abstract
In Indonesia the fiscal legitimacy of environmental taxation has not received serious attention from tax experts. This is proved by the limited number of studies investigating it. There are at least three interesting perspectives. First, the Indonesian perspective as a country, this research is very necessary and the results are awaited in order to get answers to the failure of Indonesia in application of environmental taxes. Second, policy maker perspective, the result of this research is needed to build policy based on evidence and Third, scientific perspective to introduce contemporary tax paradigm that should be well understood by government and society. It is in this context that the tax essence adequately can be well known in the structure, the posture of state levies and its impact on the productivity and competitiveness of society. This research aims to explain the implications if the government implements new environmental taxes (e.g. environmental taxes) and challenges of fiscal legitimacy from environmental taxes within the framework of green growth policy. By using constructivism paradigm, this research is done through documentation and literature study, and technical data analysis in the form of meta-analysis. The research results show that there are some pseudo environmental taxes and charges applied in Indonesia. That is, if the government impose a new tax type, then the government will add compliance costs and distort entrepreneur cash flow. However, if the government can manage revenue from environmental taxes and charges through good spending quality, it will create tax justification that will rise the tax trust. Therefore, spending quality should be done transparently, accountably and consistently, to ensure that environmental taxes that do not cause high economic costs, do not reduce competitiveness, and ensure the stability of state revenues. Thus, the restructuring, convergence and harmonization of environmental taxes and charges must be conducted in order to achieve a connection between tax payments and inclusive and sustainable economic growth can be created.
Highlights
Taxes are often regarded as effective social, economic and political engineering, so that governments often use it as the instruments in achieving government programs
Taxation would be a boomerang for the government if the government is too excessive without being able to build a fiscal legitimacy for the various taxes that imposed [2]
The data collected comes from various regulation that related to pseudo environmental taxes & charges in Indonesia
Summary
Taxes are often regarded as effective social, economic and political engineering, so that governments often use it as the instruments in achieving government programs. Taxation would be a boomerang for the government if the government is too excessive without being able to build a fiscal legitimacy for the various taxes that imposed [2]. In this context, it will be explained why environmental taxes are opposed and fail to apply in Indonesia. Often, producers do not fully bear the costs incurred due to hazardous factory waste, which is an excess of a goods production process. Smoke from factory as an excess of iron production process, can pollute the air. The state that must function as a Regulator, among others by requiring entrepreneurs to make an analysis of environmental impacts as a form of environmental behavior [5], create a waste disposal site and/or by tax collection
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