The option of an oil tax to fund transportation and infrastructure [[electronic resource] /] / Keith Crane, Nicholas Burger, Martin Wachs

• Autore: Crane Keith <1953->
• Pubblicazione: Santa Monica, CA, : RAND, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (48 p.)
• Disciplina: 336.2/785532820973
• Soggetto topico: Petroleum - Taxation - Economic aspects - United States; Transportation - Finance
• Altri autori: BurgerNicholas WachsMartin
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Section 1: Introduction; Section 2: Why Tax Oil?; Gasoline and Diesel Taxes Are Insufficient to Pay for Roads; Legislators Have Been Unwilling to Raise Gasoline and Diesel Taxes; Design and Benefits of a Tax on Oil; Section 3: How Much Might Oil Be Taxed?; Revenue Needs; Externalities; Damage to the Environment; Costs of Defending Foreign Sources of Oil and Transit; Monopsony Premium; A Potential Tax Rate for Oil; Section 4: Who Would Pay the Tax? ; Distribution of the Tax Among Consumers, Refiners, and Domestic and Foreign ProducersDistributional Effects of an Oil Tax; Implications That the Proposed Tax Could Have for Transportation Appropriations; Link the Tax to the Highway Trust Fund; Apportion the Revenue According to Its Use; Abandon the Trust Fund in Favor of General-Fund Financing; Implementation; Setting the Tax; Phasing In the Tax; Conclusion; Appendix: Gasoline Prices and Federal Tax History, 1949-2008; Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: Federal spending on surface-transportation infrastructure outpaces federal taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel. Increasing fuel efficiency means that fuel-purchase expenditures have dropped, so real revenue generated from these taxes has declined. A percentage tax on crude oil and imported refined-petroleum products consumed in the United States could fund U.S. transportation infrastructure.
• Titolo autorizzato: The option of an oil tax to fund transportation and infrastructure
• ISBN: 1-283-13581-7; 9786613135810; 0-8330-5183-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910220128603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II