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New Zealand also has such a system applying to all heavy vehicles and diesel-powered cars, known locally as a Road User Charge. Bulgaria has a truck based system under development. With the UK government banning the sale of non-electric cars from 2030, VMT tax is being considered in place of fuel duty revenue. [5]
Road pricing was taken up in the central government programme in 2011 when the coalition members committed themselves to examine "the introduction of GPS-based road user charges". [51] Transport minister Merja Kyllönen set up a working group to study "road user charging systems" in October 2012. [ 52 ]
Passenger cars pay a registration fee based on the engine displacement and power output (degressive towards 2014 (66% in 2012, 33% in 2013, 0% in 2014) and environmental criteria such as CO 2 g/km output (increasingly towards 2014). The more CO 2 g/km the car produces, the higher the fee will be. [2]
TDP road pricing is very much based on the road pricing principles outlined by William Vickrey. [12] In such a system, vehicles are charged based on when, where, and how much they drive. [13] Some transportation experts see TDP road pricing as a fairer, more effective means of charging road users and managing travel demand. [14]
The Government of Canada collects about $5 billion per year in excise taxes on gasoline, diesel, and aviation fuel [21] as well as approximately $1.6 billion per year from GST revenues on gasoline and diesel (net of input tax credits). The Canada Revenue Agency, a part of the government, collects these taxes.
Transport Canada (French: Transports Canada) is the department within the Government of Canada responsible for developing regulations, policies and services of road, rail, marine and air transportation in Canada. It is part of the Transportation, Infrastructure and Communities (TIC) portfolio.
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Set user charges sufficient to recover the full cost to the federal government of providing the service, resource or good provided by the government; and, Whenever possible set the charges at rates rather than fixed dollar amounts in order to adjust for changes in costs to the government or changes in market prices for provided goods, resources ...