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Motor vehicle taxation as pricing for highway services: some theoretical notes

PSL Quarterly Review

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Title Motor vehicle taxation as pricing for highway services: some theoretical notes
 
Creator FORTE, F.
 
Subject
Taxes, motor vehicles, fuel tax, low income countries, highway tolls
H21
 
Description The article proposes that taxes on motor vehicles may, within certain limits, be regarded as charges for the use of roads. The author tentatively groups the taxes in question into four categories according to the degree to which they conform to his definition, and then concentrates mainly on the first two taxes which seem to offer an easier means of devising a charge for the use of roads: the fuel tax and the vehicle licensing duty. This study leads to the conclusion that the arguments in favour of the fuel tax are more important in the case of low income countries than in those where the average income is high. After dealing briefly with the other taxes on motor vehicles, the author on the one hand defends the extension of tolls for the use of highways, on the other regards the conception of the universal budget as out of date and argues in favour of creating special funds based on motor vehicle taxes and earmarked for road works.JEL: H21
 
Publisher Economia civile
 
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Date 2014-09-23
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://annalidibotanica.uniroma1.it/index.php/PSLQuarterlyReview/article/view/12777
 
Source PSL Quarterly Review; Vol 8, No 34 (1955)
PSL Quarterly Review; Vol 8, No 34 (1955)
2037-3643
ISSN 2037-3635
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://annalidibotanica.uniroma1.it/index.php/PSLQuarterlyReview/article/view/12777/12585
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2016 F. FORTE
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