| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w26072 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 26072 |
| Should Electric Vehicle Drivers Pay a Mileage Tax? | |
| Lucas W. Davis; James M. Sallee | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-07-15 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In many countries the revenue from gasoline taxes is used to fund highways and other transportation infrastructure. As the number of electric vehicles on the road increases, this raises questions about the effectiveness and equity of this financing mechanism. In this paper, we ask whether electric vehicle drivers should pay a mileage tax. Though the gasoline tax has been traditionally viewed as a benefits tax, we take instead the perspective of economic efficiency. We derive a condition for the optimal electric vehicle mileage tax that highlights a key trade-off. On the one hand, there are externalities from driving including traffic congestion and accidents that imply a mileage tax is efficient. On the other hand, gasoline tends to be underpriced, so a low (or even negative) mileage tax might be justified to encourage substitution away from gasoline-powered vehicles. We then turn to an empirical analysis aimed at better understanding the current policy landscape for electric vehicles in the United States. Using newly available nationally-representative microdata we calculate that electric vehicles have reduced gasoline tax revenues by $250 million annually. We show that the foregone tax revenue is highly concentrated in a handful of states and is highly regressive, as most electric vehicles are driven by high-income households, and we discuss how this motivates and informs optimal policy. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Industrial Organization ; Industry Studies ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Energy ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26072 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583746 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Lucas W. Davis,James M. Sallee. Should Electric Vehicle Drivers Pay a Mileage Tax?. 2019. |
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| w26072.pdf（824KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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