A primer on tax reform that can help save the planet! Read it in pdf format or buy it from our secure online store.


Read the study that found automakers are exploiting a gaping loophole in the federal tax law that encourages production of more polluting and gas-guzzling vehicles. The loophole translates into billions of dollars annually for the most polluting vehicles-light trucks and sport utility vehicles. And read the company profiles on General Motors, Ford Motor Company, Daimler Chrysler and Foreign Automakers.


In 1995, Friends of the Earth first exposed some of the most environmentally destructive tax policies with the publication of Dirty Little Secrets. Four years later, we did an update to dirty little secrets. Unfortunately for taxpayers and the environment, the polluter tax loopholes are alive and well. These loopholes are called tax expenditures because they cost the government money and are considered a form of government spending. Read it in pdf format or buy it from our store.


The 1999 report published by The Vermont Fair Tax Coalition, describes how placing specific taxes and fees on environmentally and socially harmful activities can increase activities we want to encourage, like work, income or property, and decrease activities we want to discourage, like pollution and resource inefficiency. Tax Reform presented various options on how this would work for Vermont. Read it in pdf format.


The second report by the Vermont Fair Tax Coalition. It looks at four different scenarios using a pollution tax on the carbon content of fuels. Read it in pdf format. Read it in pdf format.