Tax Policy Hinders Urban Sustainability

5 September 2005 - 5:00am

Can city taxes be used to encourage sustainability?

Taxes fail, says [Donna] Morton, director of the British Columbia-based Centre for Integral Economics, because they're designed to raise the most money with the least fuss – and not to shape policy that builds healthy and beautiful landscapes...But city taxes and user fees can be put to work to 'harness the market to sustainability objectives,' she says."

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Source: Now Magazine, September 5, 2005
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