Green tax shift

A green tax shift is a reduction in taxes on labour and an increase in taxes on waste and natural resources. It is believe to drastically improve employability and motivate product stewardship, as companies that do not practice such stewardship end up paying more for waste disposal.

It is one way in which comprehensive outcomes can be reflected in a price premium. Consumerium Services of course are another way this can happen. Combining the two would make price and Consumerium buying signal converge: the less desirable the product, the higher the taxes, thus the price. In a green tax shifted system the price premium would have to be much lower to motivate buying the more ecologically desirable product.

In the extreme it motivates the industrial ecology attitude where all output, even "waste", of one process, is treated as the resources of another: waste as resource.

See w:green tax shift for a more detailed description, though vandalized.