Journal article
Raising State Gas Tax Rates for Transportation Revenues: Navigating a Bumpy Road
Journal of planning education and research, Vol.37(2), pp.164-175
06/2017
DOI: 10.1177/0739456X16651929
Abstract
State funds for surface transportation are not only key for roadway investments but generally instrumental for transportation planning at all levels. State fuel taxes still represent a major revenue source of transportation funds. This paper makes two contributions. First, we seek to identify a revenue-optimizing gas tax rate. We find that there is considerable room for the majority of states to increase tax rates before reaching the fiscally optimal gas tax rate. Second, the road to maximizing transportation funds through gas tax hikes is bumpy with multiple countervailing forces that may undermine the revenue-enhancing capacity of the tax increases.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Raising State Gas Tax Rates for Transportation Revenues: Navigating a Bumpy Road
- Creators
- Phuong Nguyen-Hoang - University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USAAlexander Bogin - Federal Housing Finance Agency, Washington, DC, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of planning education and research, Vol.37(2), pp.164-175
- DOI
- 10.1177/0739456X16651929
- ISSN
- 0739-456X
- eISSN
- 1552-6577
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/2017
- Academic Unit
- School of Planning and Public Affairs; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984083230902771
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