Two relevant publications are as below, both based solely
on the UK situation. I have also given my
web, email and phone contacts for IPPR and CPRE but have not
checked if these are up to date. I have not checked if these reports
are available on the web.
A. Transport taxation & Equity, Skinner & Ferguson, pub. IPPR, 1998
www.ippr.org.uk [log in to unmask] 0171.470.6100 (UK phone no.)
B. Rural Transport Policy & Equity, pub. CPRE, 1998
www.greenchannel.com/cpre [log in to unmask] 0171.976.6433
The report (A) includes discussion on fuel taxes within its
wider discussion of transport taxes. The general conclusion seems to be
that petrol tax is progressive with the UK population at large and
regressive within the UK motoring population. However, it is less
regressive than might be expected in that latter population, since
better off people tend to drive much further than poorer people with
cars.
They identify the most serious problem as being for poor rural motorists
- though certainly not for rural motorists in general.
Report (B) is looking at wider rural transport policy,
and that includes some discussion about petrol taxes.
Both organisations involved in producing the above reports come I think
from an environmental and an equity perspective, and take a broadly
sympathetic view of petrol and motoring taxes. They both therefore
also make some effort to suggest ways in which regressive aspects
can be countered - notably the effects on poor rural motorists.
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