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Why would one levy a tax on flights if one's goal is make travel more efficient? Why not simply tax transportation fuel based on energy or carbon content? The l
by i_am_proteus 7y ago
Why would one levy a tax on flights if one's goal is make travel more efficient? Why not simply tax transportation fuel based on energy or carbon content? The latter would incentivize industry to develop more efficient modes of transportation.
- tlb 7y agoThe article mentions that taxing fuel was found to be legally problematic. One assumes the laws preventing taxing fuels were lobbied for by oil companies.
- saurik 7y agoI looked at the linked report and it seemed to just assume that, did not even make it explicit, and definitely didn't explain it :(. I then searched for airline fuel tax information on Google and found a page from the FAA about existing fuel taxes and some information on how the funds are restricted, so I am left not understand why this is not an option. https://www.faa.gov/airports/airport_compliance/aviation_fuel_tax/ https://www.faa.gov/airports/airport_compliance/aviation_fue...
- vinay427 7y agoWhy would one assume that specifically? Also, wouldn't one then assume they will lobby against the tax on shorter and cheaper flights as well, if it had a similar effect on their numbers?