Environmental and Social Taxes: The Case of Road Transport

A concern of the “Environmental and Social Taxes” component of the Tax Forum was on issues of political feasibility rather than the efficiency arguments for making various reforms. This paper follows this approach by focusing on road pricing reforms – particularly congestion pricing. Congestion, roa...

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Published in:Economic papers (Economic Society of Australia) 2012-03, Vol.31 (1), p.13-17
Main Author: Clarke, Harry
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Australia
Australia: Economic policy
Congestion
Congestion pricing
Environmental tax
Externalities
Fuel excises
H23
implementation
political feasibility
Pricing
pricing roads
R41
R48
Road safety
Road transport
Roads
social taxation
Tax reform
Taxation
Taxation reform
Transport infrastructure
Trucks
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Summary:A concern of the “Environmental and Social Taxes” component of the Tax Forum was on issues of political feasibility rather than the efficiency arguments for making various reforms. This paper follows this approach by focusing on road pricing reforms – particularly congestion pricing. Congestion, road damage and traffic accidents are important sources of external road use costs in Australia. A major concern is gaining public acceptance for and then, on this basis, implementing such reforms. Many criticisms of road pricing and other social tax reforms that were made at the Forum seemed unaware of the substantial work that exists on these issues.
ISSN:0812-0439
1759-3441
DOI:10.1111/j.1759-3441.2012.00167.x