Tax rate design and support for mileage user-fees

Denvil Duncan, Danyang Li and John D. Graham

Transport Policy, 2020, vol. 93, issue C, 17-26

Abstract: Road mileage user-fees (MUFs) remain an unpopular financing option to replace fuel taxes at the state level despite being viewed favorably by some policy experts and policymakers. We investigate the extent to which tax-rate design can be used to boost support to the point where policymakers might feel comfortable moving ahead with replacing their fuel taxes with MUFs. Using data from four experimental surveys, we show that while tax-rate design can be used to increase public support for MUFs, the effect is likely too small to convince policymakers to adopt MUFs.

Keywords: Mileage road user fee; Gasoline tax; Highway financing; Public opinion; mTurk (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C9 H2 H54 R4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2020.04.017

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