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Working Paper 03-16 - The fiscal treatment of company cars in Belgium: effects on car demand, travel behaviour and external costs

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  • Benoît Laine
  • Alex Van Steenbergen

Abstract

This paper seeks to understand how the current tax subsidy for the ownership and use of employer-provided cars influence behaviour by its recipients. We first seek to clarify how it affects the choice about cars, i.e. the number of cars a household owns, their engine size and their value. Second, we study the impact of the subsidy on the propensity to use a car for commuting and the number of kilometres driven for commuting and for other, private purposes. The analysis has been made on the basis of the BELDAM survey, a rich dataset on mobility behaviour in Belgium.

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  • Benoît Laine & Alex Van Steenbergen, 2016. "Working Paper 03-16 - The fiscal treatment of company cars in Belgium: effects on car demand, travel behaviour and external costs," Working Papers 201603, Federal Planning Bureau, Belgium.
    • Handle: RePEc:fpb:wpaper:201603
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    Keywords

    Externalities; Personal income tax and subsidies; Transportation: Demand; Supply and Congestion;
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    JEL classification:

    • D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
    • H24 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies
    • R41 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics - - - Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise

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