Forest land tax reductions – an effective payment for forest ecosystem services in Slovakia?

Preferential land tax programs are used over 50 years and are mainly connected with nature protection and environmental goals. Nowadays, they are also considered as a way how to promote and support forest ecosystem services that arise from exempted forest land. In Slovak Republic national forest lan...

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Autores principales: Báliková Klára, Dobšinská Zuzana, Balážová Emília, Valent Peter, Šálka Jaroslav
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:440ecdde5dc84966ba7ee5c01f0833912021-12-05T14:11:07ZForest land tax reductions – an effective payment for forest ecosystem services in Slovakia?2454-035810.2478/forj-2021-0010https://doaj.org/article/440ecdde5dc84966ba7ee5c01f0833912021-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.2478/forj-2021-0010https://doaj.org/toc/2454-0358Preferential land tax programs are used over 50 years and are mainly connected with nature protection and environmental goals. Nowadays, they are also considered as a way how to promote and support forest ecosystem services that arise from exempted forest land. In Slovak Republic national forest land tax reduction scheme exists for special purpose and protection forests, as well for other forests with special importance. The goal of the paper was to develop a multidimensional evaluation of this economic instrument for ecosystem service support in Slovakia. We evaluated how the forest land tax reduction fits into the payments for ecosystem services theory, which services are supported and what is the potential and implementation effectiveness according to theory of policy analysis. Even though, the forest owners and enterprises benefit from tax reductions, evidence regarding its visibility as payment for ecosystem service is low. Forest land tax reductions are considered as other economic incentive for ecosystem services support with moderate potential effectiveness. Despite the instrument have low visibility of FES supported from both sides – sellers and beneficiaries, its potential effectiveness is high, due its automatic and stable implementation without relevant implementation gaps.Báliková KláraDobšinská ZuzanaBalážová EmíliaValent PeterŠálka JaroslavSciendoarticleforest functionspreferential tax programseconomic instrumentsprogram goalsevaluation analysisForestrySD1-669.5ENCentral European Forestry Journal, Vol 67, Iss 4, Pp 167-176 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic forest functions
preferential tax programs
economic instruments
program goals
evaluation analysis
Forestry
SD1-669.5
spellingShingle forest functions
preferential tax programs
economic instruments
program goals
evaluation analysis
Forestry
SD1-669.5
Báliková Klára
Dobšinská Zuzana
Balážová Emília
Valent Peter
Šálka Jaroslav
Forest land tax reductions – an effective payment for forest ecosystem services in Slovakia?
description Preferential land tax programs are used over 50 years and are mainly connected with nature protection and environmental goals. Nowadays, they are also considered as a way how to promote and support forest ecosystem services that arise from exempted forest land. In Slovak Republic national forest land tax reduction scheme exists for special purpose and protection forests, as well for other forests with special importance. The goal of the paper was to develop a multidimensional evaluation of this economic instrument for ecosystem service support in Slovakia. We evaluated how the forest land tax reduction fits into the payments for ecosystem services theory, which services are supported and what is the potential and implementation effectiveness according to theory of policy analysis. Even though, the forest owners and enterprises benefit from tax reductions, evidence regarding its visibility as payment for ecosystem service is low. Forest land tax reductions are considered as other economic incentive for ecosystem services support with moderate potential effectiveness. Despite the instrument have low visibility of FES supported from both sides – sellers and beneficiaries, its potential effectiveness is high, due its automatic and stable implementation without relevant implementation gaps.
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author Báliková Klára
Dobšinská Zuzana
Balážová Emília
Valent Peter
Šálka Jaroslav
author_facet Báliková Klára
Dobšinská Zuzana
Balážová Emília
Valent Peter
Šálka Jaroslav
author_sort Báliková Klára
title Forest land tax reductions – an effective payment for forest ecosystem services in Slovakia?
title_short Forest land tax reductions – an effective payment for forest ecosystem services in Slovakia?
title_full Forest land tax reductions – an effective payment for forest ecosystem services in Slovakia?
title_fullStr Forest land tax reductions – an effective payment for forest ecosystem services in Slovakia?
title_full_unstemmed Forest land tax reductions – an effective payment for forest ecosystem services in Slovakia?
title_sort forest land tax reductions – an effective payment for forest ecosystem services in slovakia?
publisher Sciendo
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/440ecdde5dc84966ba7ee5c01f083391
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