Homeowners can consider getting a home energy audit by the end of December, which would qualify for a tax break and help determine future efficiency projects, Saul-Rinaldi said. Then, homeowners can complete those projects and claim the tax break in future years. They may also be able to pa...
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Too often, support for evidence-based drug policy has been framed in terms of opposites. In this characterisation, evidence is portrayed as the clean, scientific, neutral and value-free solution to a dirty, partisan, ideological, and value-laden politics. This article transcends this dualistic vie...
Since there is currently no road tax for passenger vehicles in Germany, public resistance is expected against additional taxes. Additionally, one disadvantage of this policy's flexibility and granularity is that it is more complicated compared to the current taxation system which may make it less ...
The GSI-IF model has been used for estimating the potential emission reduction resulting from the recycling and repurposing of subsidy savings and fuel tax revenues into energy efficiency and renewable energy, as presented in the next sections. 2.2. Review of Impacts Attributable to Fossil Fuel ...
for those living in poverty because such social supports are needed for survival (Kazemipur and Halli 2001;Schram 2019). In other words, neoliberalism focuses onreorientingthe way governments operate such that state policies increasingly favour the interests of the capitalist classes by: (1) ...
We run five different simulations of food waste reduction by applying a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. In the simulations, households and food services halve their food waste. We use the CGE model because it is a well-functioning tool for examining the economy-wide effects of food...
“implement the strategy of controlling and reducing the total amount of construction land” to promote the transformation of land use and structural optimization. In 2015, the State Council of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) issued theGeneral Plan for the Reform of ...
Income-based approach (based on the ability of human capital to generate income): measures income related to market and non-market activities after tax, e.g., full labour compensation for groups classified by sex, age class, and level of schooling [79,80,81]; Education-based approach (based...
According to the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s 2021 assessment of household energy burdens by Drehobl et al. in comparison with 1% of non-low-income and 9% of non-Hispanic white households, 21% of black households experience severe energy burdens, which is defined as ...