The Distributional Impacts of a VMT-Gas Tax Swap

Gilbert Metcalf

Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, 2023, vol. 4, issue 1, 4 - 42

Abstract: More stringent fuel-economy standards and increased popularity of electric vehicles (EVs) are contributing to an erosion in federal motor vehicle fuel excise tax revenues. One solution to this problem is a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax. I consider the distributional implications of a federal tax swap where a VMT tax is used to finance a reduction in the federal excise tax on gasoline. The distributional impact of this tax swap depends on the sign of the income elasticity of demand for fuel intensity.

Date: 2023
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