In this essay, the author analyzes the reforming form the pollution charge system to the pollution tax system from the necessity and feasibility. The first part of the essay talks about the necessity of the reforming. In this part, the author takes Shanxi province in China as an example to clarify the necessity, where the drawbacks of the pollution charge systems are displayed, and the merits of the pollution tax system are proposed. In the second part of the essay, the author analyses the feasibility of the reforming from three aspects: policy, law, reality separately. Finally, the author refers to several countries where the pollution tax is carried out successfully. By the discussion in this essay and the comparison of the practice with other countries, the author draws his conclusion and gives his advice on the future development of the pollution tax in China.

Zhu Bingnan. An analysis on the system reforming in China: from pollution charge to pollution tax. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2021), Vol. 3, Issue 19: 59-64. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2021.031912.

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