Incidence of Federal and State Gasoline Taxes

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Incidence of Federal and State Gasoline Taxes

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Hayley Chouinard (Washington State University)
Jeffrey Perloff (University of California, Berkeley, and Giannini Foundation)

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Jeffrey M. Perloff

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The federal specific gasoline tax falls equally on consumers and wholesalers; whereas state specific taxes fall almost entirely on consumers. The consumer incidence of state taxes is greater in states that use relatively little gasoline.

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Paper provided by Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley in its series Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series with number 952.

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- Chouinard, Hayley & Perloff, Jeffrey M., 2004. "Incidence of federal and state gasoline taxes," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 83(1), pages 55-60, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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- Hayley Chouinard & Jeffrey Perloff, 2007. "Gasoline Price Differences: Taxes, Pollution Regulations, Mergers, Market Power, and Market Conditions," Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, Berkeley Electronic Press, vol. 7(1), pages 1599-1599. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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Other versions:
- Hayley Chouinard & Jeffrey Perloff, 2002. "Gasoline Price Differences: Taxes, Pollution Regulations, Mergers, Market Power, and Market Conditions," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series 951, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley. [Downloadable!]
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