Climate change is a threatening issue in the global. Thus, carbon tax is used as a tool to reduce greenhouse. The Australian Government announced initially the price of carbon tax is $23 per tone and has become a concerned issue with policy proposal makers and its significant effects on all society and economy. The report will outline some features that related to the issues and impacts of carbon tax as well as the responds of business and consumers.
The carbon tax will create the big gap between the poor and the rich because of increased price of all goods, especially the reduction of employment in coal, mining, manufacturing industries. Also, the Australian industries will be suffers the international competition because …show more content…
On the other hand, the increasing shortages of skills labours caused to the business confronting in finding employees. According to Siriwardana, Meng and McNeill (2011), the employment impact of the carbon tax on different sectors of employment in the Australian economy (Table 1). Other impact is to decline the profit and revenues in the retail sectors because of weak consumer, increasing interest rates. Indeed, consumers will experience the price change of goods when firms extra carbon tax in manufacturing costs. The accurate impact of carbon tax on prices related to many components such as renewable energy …show more content…
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