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ISBN: 9781459400351-06

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Greening the Tax System

From: Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do!

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Chapter 6 deals specifically with environmental taxation. If major fiscal reforms are to be undertaken to deal with the crisis, this could be a strategic moment to implement a green tax shift. However, green taxation options need to be considered very carefully, and I examine some of the problems involved in implementing green taxation, in Canada and abroad.

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Brigitte Alepin

BRIGITTE ALEPIN is a chartered accountant and tax specialist with a Master's Degree in Public Administration from Harvard University. She lectures on taxation and has appeared as an expert witness before parliamentary committees probing public finance. She has been a tax columnist for CA Magazine and the Journal de Montréal. She has written two previous books, one in 2010 which predicted the current fiscal crisis