ROAD USE FEE AS A PART OF TAXATION MECHANISM
Abstract
Maintenance and development of road networks requires significantfinancial investments. The article gives a retrospective analysis of the views of well-known foreign scientists to sources and mechanisms of road facilities funding. Main road taxes are considered, which are levied directly at the place of travel, enabling not only to solve problems of road sectorfinancing, butalso to regulate, which is especially important in the current realities, supply and demand for capacity of the road network. The estimation of the use of tax per km is given.
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E. M. Reshetova
National Research University «Higher School of Economics», Moscow, Russia.
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Reshetova E.M. ROAD USE FEE AS A PART OF TAXATION MECHANISM. World of Transport and Transportation. 2015;13(5):132-145.
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