Synopsis of a tax policy announced late 2012 aimed at promoting techological innovation and development in Brazil's automotive industry.
From a Beijing workshop hosted by MIIT April 2011 on vehicle fuel consumption regulation and fiscal policies.
The ICCT and the China Automotive Technology and Research Center co-organized a workshop on in Beijing on vehicle fuel consumption regulation and fiscal policies for China.
A wide-ranging analysis of vehicle emissions control policies in China, evaluating successes to date and assessing potential for new vehicle and fuel standards, compliance monitoring, and impacts of advanced technologies and fuels.
Assesses taxes and incentives applied to new private passenger vehicles by governments seeking to use fiscal policy to strengthen standards-based approaches to vehicle emissions regulation.
Summarizes one of the most promising fiscal policy tools available to complement vehicle emissions standards: so-called feebate programs, in which more efficient vehicles receive rebates and less efficient vehicles are assessed fees.