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TAXING THE SUN
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The taxes have always represented an important instrument of fiscal policy having a significant influence on the behavior of consumers of taxable goods. Potentially providing multiple effects and financial gains, they can be used as effective means of achieving the energy, transport, environmental, economic, and other goals. Although the EU has no direct jurisdiction over the selection of tax systems and tax forms of its member states, it seems that the limit of the indirect interference into the implementation of tax policies, aiming to preserve the unified internal market and fundamentally free markets of the EU, is very flexible. Observing the recent developments in the taxation of energy, the taxation of renewable energy opened up a number of questions regarding energy policies. Of particular interest are the differences in how renewable energy is taxed, which in some member states is done against the environmental policy of EU, making the investments in these countries uncertain. As a result of uneven implementation of international standards, inefficient state support, and damaged relationships in market competition between traditional and alternative energy producers – many undesired consequences have arisen, making the viability of these tax policies questionable.
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