TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sallee,James
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - The Taxation of Fuel Economy
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - October 2010; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - Policy-makers have instituted a variety of fuel economy tax policies -- polices that tax or subsidize new vehicle purchases on the basis of fuel economy performance -- in the hopes of improving fleet fuel economy and reducing gasoline consumption. This article reviews existing policies and concludes that while they do work to improve vehicle fuel economy, the same goals could be achieved at a lower cost to society if policy-makers instead directly taxed fuel. Fuel economy taxation, as it is currently practiced, invites several forms of gaming that could be eliminated by policy changes. Thus, even if policy-makers prefer fuel economy taxation over fuel taxes for reasons other than efficiency, there are still potential efficiency gains from reform
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w16466
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w16466
ER  -