Iranian Business Management Association International Journal of Resistive Economics 2345-4954 8 3 2020 07 01 The Effects of Green Tax on Emission of Environmental Pollutants in Iran 47 60 125387 EN Saman Ghaderi Department of Economics, Faculty of Social and Humanity Science, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran. Aram Feizi Department of Economics, Faculty of Humanity Science, Payam Noor University, Kurdestan, Sanandaj, Iran. Farhad Khodadad Kashi Department of Economics, Faculty of Humanity Science, Payam Noor University, Kurdestan, Sanandaj, Iran. Fereshteh Ghavam Zadeh Department of Economics, Faculty of Humanity Science, Payam Noor University, Kurdestan, Sanandaj, Iran. Journal Article 2020 02 19 The aim of this study is to evaluate the short-term and long-term effects of  green tax on the emission of environmental pollutants in Iran. To achieve this goal, used data were related to the period of 1358-1391 and also Auto Regressive Distributed Lags (ARDL) method has been is used. Research results indicated that Green taxes have a negative effect on emissions of pollutants in Iran. Furthermore, Economic growth and population have significant and positive relationship with pollutants emissions and research and development expenditure and degrees of freedom have a negative relationship with their emissions. The findings also show that the amount of pollutants emissions of carbon dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide for each was period80, 30 and 50 percent of adjusted deviations respectively, and moves towards its long-run equilibrium. https://www.oajre.ir/article_125387_cb758eb7396b63b98844e20b836fa62a.pdf