Distributional consequences of gasoline taxation in the United Kingdom

Santos, Georgina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8446-8297 and Catchesides, Tom 2005. Distributional consequences of gasoline taxation in the United Kingdom. Transportation Research Record 1924 (1) , pp. 103-111. 10.3141/1924-13

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Abstract

This paper assesses the regressive effects of gasoline taxation in the United Kingdom. When all households are considered, middle-income households suffer most of the burden. When only car-owning households are considered, gasoline taxation is strongly regressive. Low-income households that own a car are more severely affected than high-income households because they spend a larger proportion of their income on motoring. This conclusion is similar to that of previous studies on the topic.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Fuel taxes, gasoline taxes, fuel duties, petrol taxes, regressive impacts, distributional effects, equity impacts petrol taxation, gasoline taxation
Additional Information:	PDF uploaded in accordance with publisher's policy at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0361-1981/ (accessed 11.3.15)
Publisher:	Transportation Research Board
ISSN:	0361-1981
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	08 May 2023 16:18
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/9947

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