What is Ex'tax?
In our society, high taxes on labour drive businesses to minimize the number of employees. Resources remain untaxed, so we use them unconstrained. This system causes both unemployment and scarcity of resources.
Eckart Wintzen (1939-2008) proposed a system change called Value Extracted Tax (Ex'tax in short). Ex'tax brings tax on resources up and tax on labour down. This creates an incentive to use abundant and recycled materials. Lower taxes on labour make services more affordable. Every sector requiring manpower, craftsmanship and creativity will benefit from lower labour costs.
Ex'tax enables a more sustainable kind of prosperity, based on smart resource use and abundance of services. Ex'tent is creating a wave around Ex'tax.
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SUPPORT
- 11.May
- European Commission
‘a win-win option’
- 10.Nov
- Resource Intelligent Europe MEP/MP network
‘we need nothing less than a paradigm shift’
- 10.Nov
- The Club of Rome Global Assembly
‘increase taxes on the use of resources and lower taxes on labour’
- 04.Nov
- The World Resources Forum
‘Adjusting the fiscal framework is the most fundamental and urgent pre-requisite for approaching a sustainable future’
- 25.Oct
- De Groene Zaak, a Dutch collective of businesses
‘[belastingverschuiving] zal leiden tot verhoging van de arbeidsparticipatie … én stimulering van de eco-efficiëntie’
- 12.Aug
- Prince Carlos de Bourbon de Parme
‘a great example of a necessary fundamental change’
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NEWS
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UNEP study on recycling ‘recycling society no more than a distant hope’
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PwC Dutch Sustainability Monitor businesses lack policy for resource scarcity
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Ex’tax in Delta Lloyd Q magazine ‘On Tax and Toasters’
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Electronic Waste [Infographic] e-waste visualized
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Is Afghanistan going to solve resource scarcity? ‘there are too many ‘if’s’
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TWEETS
- femkegroothuis: Is it Mr. Magorium? No, it's the inventor of KAPLA [vid] http://t.co/hCHwSc1A #magic #withoutbatteries via @liesbethstaats
- femkegroothuis: KPMG: 10 megaforces impact on business will accelerate http://t.co/JavHAVIe #resourcescarcity
- femkegroothuis: KPMG: if companies had to pay for full environmental costs of production, they would lose .41 for every $1 in earnings http://t.co/Q22ikgFk
- femkegroothuis: Ex'tax, The Idea Formerly Known As BOW RT @lynx234: Belasting Onttrokken Waarde RT @aikvaneemeren ter lering :) -> interessante visie...
- femkegroothuis: dank! RT @aikvaneemeren: ter lering :) -> interessante visie op vernieuwing van ons belastingstelsel: http://t.co/o04Ylpfd
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More on Scarcity
- (EU) European Commission, Critical raw materials for the EU
- (SERI) Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Overconsumption? Our Use of the World’s Natural Resources
- (Fraunhofer Institute) Angerer, Raw materials for emerging technologies
- (TNO) Diederen, Metal minerals scarcity: A call for managed austerity and the elements of hope
- (UN) United Nations University, StEP Initiative, Annual Report 2008
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More on Taxes
- Bleischwitz et al., International Economics of Resource Efficiency
- Commission of the European Communities, Green Paper
- Council of the European Union, Sustainable materials management
- Wintzen, Re-engineering the Planet: Three Steps to a Sustainable Free Market Economy
- Ekins, Resource Productivity, Environmental Tax Reform and Sustainable Growth
- UK Green Fiscal Commission, The Case for Green Fiscal Reform
CONTACT
Ex'tax is powered by Ex'tent, the green venture capital company of the late Eckart Wintzen. In our offices in Austerlitz (Holland) you are welcome to meet our people.