Asymmetric competition in the setting of diesel excise taxes in EU countries

Paizs, László

doi:10.1556/aoecon.63.2013.4.2

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“…Rietveld & van Woudenberg (2005) analyzed the setting of gasoline and diesel taxes and found strong tax competition effects for diesel excise taxes in Europe. Paizs (2010) confirms the evidence on diesel excise competition. He also finds that larger countries react more aggressively to changes in their neighbors' tax rates and that smaller countries tend to charge lower fuel excise taxes as predicted by Kanbur and Keen.…”

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Why truck distance taxes are contagious and drive fuel taxes to the bottom

Mandell

Proost

2016

Journal of Urban Economics

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This paper analyzes how countries with international and local truck traffic decide to switch from a simple fuel tax system to a dual system of fuel and kilometer taxes. We show what drives a country to switch and how this affects the level of fuel taxes and the incentives for the other countries to also adopt the dual system. The model is partially able to explain the gradual extension of kilometer charging for trucks in Europe. The model also shows that, in the absence of diesel cars, the gradual introduction of kilometer charges will make fuel taxation for trucks virtually disappear and will lead to a system where truck use is (1) taxed mainly based on distance, but (2) is taxed too heavily. When the fuel tax must in addition serve as an externality tax for diesel cars, the introduction of distance charges for trucks will give rise to diesel taxes that are lower than the external cost of diesel cars. For trucks, this leads to a sum of diesel taxes and distance charges that are higher than the external cost of trucks.

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