Local Option Sales Taxes, Metropolitan Planning Organizations, and SB 375: A Question of Priorities

Elisa Barbour and Noah Thoron

Institute of Transportation Studies, Working Paper Series from Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis

Abstract: This report considers the role of local option sales taxes (LOSTs) for transportation in influencing spending patterns in regional transportation plans adopted by Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) in California’s four largest metropolitan regions. Through quantitative analysis of information on LOST measures placed on the ballot from 1976 to 2022, and through case studies of recent LOSTs placed on the ballot in two counties, patterns in LOST expenditure by mode and purpose are compared over time and across regions, and with spending allocated by MPOs in their long-range regional transportation plans. View the NCST Project Webpage

Keywords: Law; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Expenditures; Financing; Local taxation; Metropolitan planning organizations; Sales tax (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-07-01
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