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TAX & FEES * USA - Congressional Commission Recommends Mileage-Based User Fee
Washington,DC,USA -TruckingInfo -27 Feb 2009: -- Calling the current federal motor fuels tax unsustainable over the long term, a bipartisan, Congressionally created commission is recommending that the U.S. shift to a mileage-based usage fee by 2020... Culminating nearly two years of study and deliberation, the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission offered its consensus view and roadmap for sweeping reform of the nation's transportation infrastructure funding approach with the release ofits final report, "Paying Our Way: A New Framework for Transportation Finance," Thursday... Charging vehicle drivers a mileage fee embodies the "user pays" principle and more accurately aligns the costs and benefits of the surface transportation system to those who are using it... More transparent charges for using infrastructure may also spur drivers to use the system more efficiently, reducing the overall investment need...* Commission recommends tolls and taxes, but no reform
Grain Valley,MO,USA -Land Line Magazine -February 26, 2009: -- As if truckers and highway users aren’t paying enough in taxes, fees and tolls to run on America’s highways, a federal commission is recommending that Congress adopt a sweeping array of new and higher user fees... Critics, including OOIDA, say the report does not address the way transportation money is spent nor does it call for reform... OOIDA and other highway user groups remain strongly opposed to the tolling of existing highway capacity... Trucks make up only 7 percent of traffic on the nation’s highways, but highway-use taxes that truckers pay amount to more than 36 percent of the total money contributed to the federal Highway Trust Fund according to OOIDA... “Truckers are already paying more than their fair share,” Spencer said... OOIDA acknowledges that a vehicle-miles tax may someday replace the fuel tax, but for now, the fuel tax remains viable as the fairest and easiest way to fund transportation...
* Colorado House OKs road funding bill; tolls, truck fee increases included
CO,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Keith Goble -February 26, 2009: -- The Colorado House has narrowly approved a bill that includes the option of charging tolls to access existing free routes... By a margin of 34-31, House lawmakers voted to advance the bill, which is intended to raise at least $250 million a year to fix the state’s crumbling roads and bridges... Officials with the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association point out that truckers and others already pay federal taxes and user fees that contribute to the upkeep of interstate highways. The Association, therefore, opposes the tolling of roadways because it amounts to double taxation for truckers... OOIDA also opposes the long-term leasing of existing roadways to private business. Association officials oppose the idea of these private companies being guaranteed profitable toll increases on the backs of highway users...
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