Ex-post analysis of impacts of the car registration fee in the Czech Republic

Zimmermannová, Jarmila

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2012.07.001

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“…Since 2007 a number of European countries including The Netherlands have implemented targeted tax changes to influence car purchasing trends towards lower CO 2 -emitting vehicles. Although tax incentives based on type-approval CO 2 -values may potentially have a large impact on purchasing behavior and CO 2 emissions, only a limited number of ex-post evaluations are as yet available, see for example Klier and Linn (2012), Rogan et al (2011), Ryan et al (2009) and Zimmermannova (2012). Besides, most of the literature is focused on assessing the effect of pricing and taxation of fuel and car use, whereas there is a growing evidence that consumers respond more effectively to up-front price signals, such as purchase taxes and feebate policies, and tax incentives that are particularly salient, such as company car taxes graded by CO 2 emissions and tightened over time (Brand et al, 2013;Klier and Linn, 2012).…”

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Six years of CO2-based tax incentives for new passenger cars in The Netherlands: Impacts on purchasing behavior trends and CO2 effectiveness

Kok

2015

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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Six years of CO2-based tax incentives for new passenger cars in The Netherlands: Impacts on purchasing behavior trends and CO2 effectiveness

Kok

2015

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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“…Despite this focus and the need to meet legislated short and medium targets, there is a gap in understanding the carbon emission reduction effects of individual vehicle tax policies. The evidence we have is mostly ex-ante (Bastani et al, 2012;BenDor and Ford, 2006;Greene, 2009;Greene et al, 2005;Haan et al, 2006;Skippon et al, 2012;Spitzley et al, 2005), with some notable attempts of ex-post evaluation of fiscal policy instruments on passenger car sales and CO2 emissions (Ryan et al, 2009), car taxation policy in Ireland (Rogan et al, 2011) and the car registration fee in the Czech Republic (Zimmermannova, 2012). However, with the exception of Spitzley et al (2005) and Bastani et al (2012), none of these are on a life cycle analysis basis which not only looks at direct (or tailpipe, at source) GHG emissions but also takes into consideration indirect GHG emissions from fuel supply, vehicle production, maintenance and scrappage.…”

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Accelerating the transformation to a low carbon passenger transport system: The role of car purchase taxes, feebates, road taxes and scrappage incentives in the UK

Brand

Anable

Tran

2013

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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The transition to a low carbon transport world requires a host of demand and supply policies to be developed and deployed. Pricing and taxation of vehicle ownership plays a major role, as it affects purchasing behavior, overall ownership and use of vehicles. There is a lack in robust assessments of the life cycle energy and environmental effects of a number of key car pricing and taxation instruments, including graded purchase taxes, vehicle excise duties and vehicle scrappage incentives. This paper aims to fill this gap by exploring which type of vehicle taxation accelerates fuel, technology and purchasing behavioral transitions the fastest with (i) most tailpipe and life cycle greenhouse gas emissions savings, (ii) potential revenue neutrality for the Treasury and (iii) no adverse effects on car use.The UK Transport Carbon Model was developed further and used to assess long term scenarios of low carbon fiscal policies and their effects on transport demand, vehicle stock evolution, life cycle greenhouse gas emissions in the UK. The modeling results suggest that policy choice, design and timing can play crucial roles in meeting multiple policy goals. Both CO2 grading and tightening of CO2 limits over time are crucial in achieving the transition to low carbon mobility. Of the policy scenarios investigated here the more ambitious and complex car purchase tax and feebate policies are most effective in accelerating low carbon technology uptake, reducing life cycle greenhouse gas emissions and, if designed carefully, can avoid overburdening consumers with ever more taxation whilst ensuring revenue neutrality. Highly graduated road taxes (or VED) can also be successful in reducing emissions; but while they can provide handy revenue streams to governments that could be recycled in accompanying low carbon measures they are 2 of 32 likely to face opposition by the driving population and car lobby groups. Scrappage schemes are found to save little carbon and may even increase emissions on a life cycle basis.The main policy implication of this work is that in order to reduce both direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions from transport governments should focus on designing incentive schemes with strong up-front price signals that reward 'low carbon' and penalize 'high carbon'. Policy instruments should also be subject to early scrutiny of the longer term impacts on government revenue and pay attention to the need for flanking policies to boost these revenues and maintain the marginal cost of driving.

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“…These correlation coefficients were successfully applied by the authors in their previous research connected with the impacts of particular economic instruments of public economy in the Czech Republic (Zimmermannova, 2012;Zimmermannova and Mensik, 2013) or in research focused on the dependence among various variables -income structure, health and social insurance and personal income tax; GDP per capita, net disposable household income per capita, and the mean gross monthly wage in the Czech regions (Kvicalova et al, 2014).…”

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What can Tax Revenues tell us about the Economic Activity of Regions?

Zimmermannová

Skaličková

Široký

2016

Economics &Amp; Sociology

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The main goal of this paper is to provide an analysis of the relationships among selected indicators of economic activity of regions (GDP, unemployment) and regional tax revenues obtained from taxes imposed on economic activity (VAT, income taxation) in the Czech Republic, with a detailed analysis of VAT. Our methodology is based on correlation analysis (both the Pearson's and the Spearman's correlation coefficients) using data from the official statistics of the Czech Republic. The main idea of the paper is that regional tax revenues should give us a picture of the economic activity of companies, residents and entrepreneurs in these regions. Based on the results, we can say that there is a statistically significant positive relationship between regional VAT revenues and the value of regional GDP, and a statistically significant negative relationship between regional income taxes revenues and regional unemployment.

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Ex-post analysis of impacts of the car registration fee in the Czech Republic

Cited by 12 publications

References 14 publications

Six years of CO2-based tax incentives for new passenger cars in The Netherlands: Impacts on purchasing behavior trends and CO2 effectiveness

Six years of CO2-based tax incentives for new passenger cars in The Netherlands: Impacts on purchasing behavior trends and CO2 effectiveness

Accelerating the transformation to a low carbon passenger transport system: The role of car purchase taxes, feebates, road taxes and scrappage incentives in the UK

What can Tax Revenues tell us about the Economic Activity of Regions?

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