policies in the Indian car market. We simulate the effects of petrol and diesel fuel taxes and a diesel car tax, taking into … account their interactions with the pre-existing petrol fuel tax and car sales taxes. At levels sufficient to reduce total … about 4 (2010) Rs./L. However, at levels sufficient to reduce total fuel consumption by 2%, the increased petrol fuel tax …

the Treasury in 2012.[1]Currently, revenues from fuel duty and road tax exceed expenditure on roads by £30 billion per … the bottom decile.Motorists and hauliers are treated unfairly by the tax system. Other activities with negative … noise and air pollution – benefit from tax breaks and subsidies.Fuel duty is a very inefficient way of addressing the wider …

Several policy makers and economists have proposed the adoption of a carbon tax in the United States. It is widely … recognized that such a tax in practice must take the form of a tax on the consumption of energy products such as gasoline … not be appropriate for evaluating the effectiveness of such a tax. First, most of these studies fail to address the …

resistance to fuel taxes. Thus, by raising fuel efficiency standards now, politicians may be able to pursue higher fuel tax paths …