Study on new forest maintenance projects by "Forest Environmental Tax"

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  • Imawaka Shintaro
    Okayama Station, Administration Bureau of Kinki-Chugoku, Forest Agency
  • Sato Noriko
    Department of Forest and Forest Products Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University

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  • 「森林環境税」による新たな森林整備に関する研究
  • シンリン カンキョウゼイ ニ ヨル アラタ ナ シンリン セイビ ニ カンスル ケンキュウ

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Abstract

Under the decentralization policy, since 2000 local governments have had right toindependently set up tax. A new taxation termed "Forest Environmental Tax" hasbeen widely introduced by prefectures. As of January 2007, 16 prefectures hadintroduced this tax. This paper aimed to deliberate the objectives and policy scheme ofthe new tax and to compare the tax’ s effectiveness and problems between theprefectures of Okayama and Kumamoto.Okayama prefecture attempted forest maintenance projects by promotion of forestry,which is similar to the method of conventional thinning subsidies for forest owners.On the other hand, Kumamoto prefecture designed new projects which are not linkedwith the forestry promotion. Kumamoto local government paid all heavy thinningcosts, directly implemented the operation, and forbade the forest owners to bring outand sell the thinning logs. Both prefectures could get steady result of thinningpromotion. However in Okayama the new revenue brought about decrease of existentbudget for forest and forestry section. And in Kumamoto active forestry householdsand forest cooperatives were disappointed with the new tax and urging the policy wasfaced on some difficulties.

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