Sentences with phrase «taxes road tolls»

Not exact matches

But falling gas taxes will soon push politicians to take a closer look at road tolls, providing an opportunity to fight congestion at the same time.

We can thus expect governments to pay a lot more attention to road tolls in the future, if only to recoup their losses on gas taxes.

At the same time, the alcohol in draught beer is taxed at a concessional rate, which makes it cheaper to drink in pubs than at home and almost certainly adds to the road toll.

The roads could be paid for without a centralized tax system by using a toll road system.

The $ 145.3 billion spending plan increases school aid next year by just under $ 1 billion (which school boards say is not enough) and over the next five years commits to build thousands of units of affordable housing for the homeless, contribute $ 8.3 billion to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, spend $ 22 billion on upstate roads and bridges, cut taxes for small businesses and create a rebate for Thruway toll payers.

«Under the Trump proposal - which just passes the buck from the feds to states, cities and counties - to build a project like I - 81, local taxes would rise and all drivers in the Syracuse area would be forced to pay a «Trump Toll» every time they got on that road,» Schumer said.

In a range of proposals designed to show the coalition has not run out of ideas, Cameron and Clegg will set out plans for a flat - rate childcare voucher paid through the tax system, likely to be worth up to # 2,000 per child; a cap on the cost of social care; new help with mortgages; and transport investment through road tolls.

At times, I think that between gas tax and road tolls, it's costing me a fortune to live where there's no state income tax.

This very loose definition of «axle» is often used in assessing toll roads or vehicle taxes, and is taken as a rough proxy for the overall weight - bearing capacity of a vehicle, and its potential for causing wear or damage to roadway surfaces.

From a transportation policy point of view, this sort of tax shifting is also more equitable in that it taxes every driver according to the amount of miles they drive by sharing the price signal (by spreading the tax / fees burden) across all drivers instead of assessing flat road maintenance fees or concentrating them amongst a specific group of drivers, some of whom just happen to use toll roads more frequently than average but not necessarily drive more.

Externalities may be addressed by either a tax / credit or some other public policy, public ownership and management of the commons, or privatization of the commons, or through court actions — each option may have it's own costs — for example, the large - scale privatization of the climate system may be impractical with given technology (analogy with toll roads), and even without that, it has at least an aesthetic cost (nature is supposed to be nature; and psychologically, humans may benifit from some amount of public space) and perhaps scientific (ie nature — in this context, nature as it is with relatively small impacts of humankind — is not nature if it is not being itself) costs; there may be inefficiencies in the court system that could be bypassed for issues that are easily addressed with legislation (unless we had a class - action lawsuit on behalf of all people now until the year).

EV drivers can drive in bus lanes, get to use toll roads for free, get to park for free, get to ride ferries for free (which is apparently not just for fun but necessary in some regions), don't have to pay any purchase tax (which is very high in Norway), and more.