Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Graduate School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation.
Nat Commun. 2021 Dec 2;12(1):7017. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-27380-8.
Public acceptability of carbon taxation depends on its revenue use. Which single or mixed revenue use is most appropriate, and which perceptions of policy effectiveness and fairness explain this, remains unclear. It is, moreover, uncertain how people's prior knowledge about carbon taxation affects policy acceptability. Here we conduct a survey experiment to test how distinct revenue uses, prior knowledge, and information provision about the functioning of carbon taxation affect policy perceptions and acceptability. We show that spending revenues on climate projects maximises acceptability as well as perceived fairness and effectiveness. A mix of different revenue uses is also popular, notably compensating low-income households and funding climate projects. In addition, we find that providing information about carbon taxation increases acceptability for unspecified revenue use and for people with more prior tax knowledge. Furthermore, policy acceptability is more strongly related to perceived fairness than to perceived effectiveness.
公众对碳税的接受程度取决于其税收用途。哪种单一或混合的税收用途最合适，以及哪种对政策效果和公平性的看法可以解释这一点，目前还不清楚。此外，人们对碳税的先验知识如何影响政策的可接受性也不确定。在这里，我们进行了一项调查实验，以测试不同的税收用途、先验知识以及关于碳税运作的信息提供如何影响政策认知和可接受性。我们表明，将税收用于气候项目可以最大限度地提高可接受性以及公平性和有效性。不同税收用途的混合也很受欢迎，特别是补偿低收入家庭和为气候项目提供资金。此外，我们发现，提供有关碳税的信息可以提高对未指定税收用途和对具有更多先验税收知识的人的可接受性。此外，政策可接受性与感知公平性的关系比与感知有效性的关系更为密切。
