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Is a Tax by the Mile Coming Down the Road?

6 May 2011

This week, a proposal to tax cars by the mile seemed to take the country by surprise. But, yawn, it’s actually so 2009. Two years ago, a “tax by the kilometer” was made law in Holland. At the time, it was fun to speculate which country might be next (Germany had interest in the concept), [...]

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Increase Gas Tax? Why Not Tax By the Mile?

3 January 2009

There has been a lot of discussion lately about increasing the national gas tax. In fact, a proposal to increase the tax, which currently stands at 19 cents per gallon, has been touted as recently as last week. The National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission (NSTIFC) has reported that the current infrastructure is dated and [...]

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