Kushnir I.V.

Economic incentives of environmental performance

The basis of the improvement of economic methods to stimulate environmental performance measures on a system that is intended to increase interest in businesses in implementing legislation on environmental protection, thereby reducing out their tax liabilities. Economic incentives, on the one hand, is provided by tax regulations, establish incentives, the special policy on excise taxes, loans, etc., on the other hand, provides for special tax environmentally harmful products and the products manufactured using environmentally dangerous technologies.

Economic incentives are a way to solve environmental problems by encouraging entrepreneurship, in which address issues of conservation. For effective economic techniques to stimulate environmental activities are the following: the establishment of tax and other incentives provided to businesses and organizations in the implementation of low-waste and non-waste technologies and industries, use of secondary resources, the implementation of other activities that provide environmental benefits, establishing higher depreciation of fixed environmental funds, the use of promotional prices and premiums for environmentally friendly products, the introduction of a special taxing environmentally harmful products, and products using environmentally dangerous technologies, the use of concessional lending to enterprises, institutions and organizations (whether public or private) that effectively carry environmental protection, strengthening control over the use of natural resources and the application of appropriate penalties.

Economic incentives to measures for the protection of the environment and environmental management should be based on consistent development and introduction of new methods based on positive reinforcement, taking into account regional characteristics, the main purpose should be to encourage businesses to environmental activities.