Author(s)

I. M. Román-Sánchez, Irene Carra

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Department of Applied Economics, University of Almería, Almería, Spain.

Market failure involving pollution from wastewater discharges industrials, is corrected with the establishment of environmental taxes. Heterogeneity in the design of these taxes, with a different tax base for each EU member country, affects both the pollution parameters considered and their weight in the calculation of the tax payable. This paper presents a study on the variety of this tax in Belgium, Italy and Spain. Finally, we discuss the possibility of the same as correcting market failure.

Sanitary Tax; Wastewater; Externalities; Environmental Taxes; Agro-Food Industry

I. Román-Sánchez and I. Carra, "Effect of Environmental Taxes as Correcting Negative Externalities Caused by Water Pollution Applied to the Agro-Food Industry," Theoretical Economics Letters, Vol. 3 No. 3A, 2013, pp. 30-34. doi: 10.4236/tel.2013.33A006.