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- Title
Gasoline and Diesel Tax Incidence: The 2003 Washington State Nickel Funding Package.
- Authors
Silvia, Louis; Taylor, Christopher T.
- Abstract
This paper considers a previously unexamined increase in excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel that were part of Washington State's Nickel Funding Package of 2003. We fail to reject full pass-through of the amount of the tax increase to retail prices in both products. We find no significant sensitivity of retail pass-through to station locations relative to state borders or to retail competitive conditions as measured by local station density. The expansion of hypermarkets in Washington State during the period was a confounding factor in estimating tax pass-through effects.
- Subjects
GASOLINE taxes; DIESEL fuel taxation; EXCISE tax; HYPERMARKETS; BUSINESS expansion
- Publication
B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2016, Vol 16, Issue 3, p1539
- ISSN
2194-6108
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/bejeap-2015-0070