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来源类型 | Report |
规范类型 | 报告 |
Charging Drivers by the Pound: The Effects of the UK Vehicle Tax System | |
Davide Cerruti; Anna Alberini; Joshua Linn | |
发表日期 | 2017-05-19 |
出版年 | 2017 |
页码 | 31 pp. |
语种 | 英语 |
概述 | Using data on UK vehicle registrations, taxes, and characteristics of new cars, we estimate the effect of the carbon-based Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) system on new vehicle registrations and carbon emissions. |
结论 | |
摘要 | Policymakers have been considering vehicle and fuel taxes to reduce transportation greenhouse gas emissions, but there is little evidence on the relative efficacy of these approaches. We examine an annual vehicle registration tax, the Vehicle Excise Duty (VED), which is based on carbon emissions rates. The United Kingdom first adopted the system in 2001 and made substantial changes to it in the following years. Using a highly disaggregated dataset of UK monthly registrations and characteristics of new cars, we estimate the effect of the VED on new vehicle registrations and carbon emissions. The VED increased the adoption of low-emissions vehicles and discouraged the purchase of very polluting vehicles, but it had a small effect on aggregate emissions. Using the empirical estimates, we compare the VED with hypothetical taxes that are proportional either to carbon emissions rates or to carbon emissions. The VED reduces total emissions twice as much as the emissions rate tax but by half as much as the emissions tax. Much of the advantage of the emissions tax arises from adjustments in miles driven, rather than the composition of new car sales. |
主题 | Transportation |
子主题 | Carbon Tax ; Fuel Taxes |
URL | http://www.rff.org/research/publications/charging-drivers-pound-effects-uk-vehicle-tax-system |
来源智库 | Resources for the Future (United States) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/39473 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Davide Cerruti,Anna Alberini,Joshua Linn. Charging Drivers by the Pound: The Effects of the UK Vehicle Tax System. 2017. |
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