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2019
This chapter compares local fees/charges with local taxes. It lays out how they should be set and for what services. User fees or charges should be based on usage of a service. They are fair, efficient, and accountable where individual beneficiaries are identified and where non-users can be excluded.
Harry Kitchen +2 more
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This chapter compares local fees/charges with local taxes. It lays out how they should be set and for what services. User fees or charges should be based on usage of a service. They are fair, efficient, and accountable where individual beneficiaries are identified and where non-users can be excluded.
Harry Kitchen +2 more
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User Charges as Redistributive Devices
Journal of Public Economic Theory, 1999In this model, a mix of public and private provision of private goods arises naturally in the economy. We characterize the social optimum in the presence of a linear tax/public expenditure system and show how a user charge can be welfare‐ or Pareto‐improving, when the users are the poor.
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Charging users for library service
Information Processing & Management, 1978Abstract The question of instituting direct charges for library service is examined and is contrasted with the current indirect changing system where services are paid for by taxes of various types. The policy of whether to levy direct charges for on-line bibliographic searching serves as an example for the analysis. In this case it is concluded that
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Car Users’ Acceptability of a Kilometre Charge
2008This chapter argues that individual car users will consider two types of effects when evaluating the acceptability of road pricing: effects on the problems resulting form car use (for example congestion) and effects of their own car use. The authors content that the latter will depend on the degree to which a car user can cope with expected cost ...
Schuitema, G. +3 more
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Planning Mobile Charging Vehicles Based on User Charging Behavior
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Internet of People, Assistive Robots and Things, 2018With increasing environmental awareness from the society, electric vehicles (EVs) have been taking a steady increasing market share each year. Meanwhile, the overall charging demand usually significantly varies in both spatial and time domains. So the availability of public charging facilities usually do not match the exact demand during different ...
Qi Liu +7 more
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User charges and bureaucratic inefficiency
Atlantic Economic Journal, 1998This paper develops the theoretical reasons why user charge finance leads to improved government efficiency and reduced expenditures. It is argued that user charges constrain bureaucratic behavior, thus forcing the bureau to operate closer to the true demand curve for the service.
Edward J. Bierhanzl, Paul B. Downing
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User Charges in International Aviation
American Journal of International Law, 1979The charges that air carriers pay for the use of airports and airways to provide international air service have become a source of recurrent and heated controversy between governments. This controversy largely stems from the rapid rise in user charges over the last decade, but it has been fed by the lack of uniformity practiced by some countries in ...
L. Welch Vogue, Calvin Davison
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Traffic Technology International, 2018
Is the public money available for road construction and upkeep about to run out? Michael Donlevy reports from the fifth Mileage-Based User Fees Alliance Conference in Washington DC, and discovers a growing community pressing the case for a change in funding methods
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Is the public money available for road construction and upkeep about to run out? Michael Donlevy reports from the fifth Mileage-Based User Fees Alliance Conference in Washington DC, and discovers a growing community pressing the case for a change in funding methods
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Universal health coverage and user charges
Health Economics, Policy and Law, 2013AbstractThere has been an explosion of interest in the concept of ‘universal health coverage’, fuelled by publication of the World Health Report 2010. This paper argues that the system of user charges for health services is a fundamental determinant of levels of coverage. A charge can lead to a loss of utility in two ways.
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1971
Presented at the 12th Transportation Research Forum meeting, Oct.
Beshers, Eric W., Beshers, Eric W.
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Presented at the 12th Transportation Research Forum meeting, Oct.
Beshers, Eric W., Beshers, Eric W.
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