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Aviation Carbon Charges and Fuel Taxes

MCLI Recommendation: “Congress and States could increase taxes on fuel used in domestic aviation.”

LPDD Recommendation: “Congress could increase taxes on international flights leaving the United States.”

LPDD Recommendation: “Congress could increase taxes on passenger tickets.”

LPDD Recommendation: “Congress, the FAA, and States could carry out a full review of all the taxes and charges placed on the aviation industry with the explicit objective of considering whether they are adequate in light of aviation’s climate impact.”

LPDD Recommendation: “Congress could adopt an economy-wide carbon trading or tax measure, including aviation.”

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Resource Congress

The Inflation Reduction Act

New: The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund are announcing the launch of an additional resource on the Inflation Reduction Act Tracker website: the IRA litigation case ...

Resource Congress

The American Clean Energy and Security Act

The proposed American Clean Energy and Security Act (2009) would have included requirements that petroleum-based liquid fuel producers, including aviation fuel, buy carbon permits. The Boxer-Kerry Sen...

Resource States and State Governments

Motor Fuel Tax Information by State

The Federation of Tax Administrators published a September 2017 report summarizing Motor Fuel Tax Information by State. As of that publication, four states had exempted aviation fuel generally from ta...

Resource Congress

ICAO Recommendation Against Fuel Taxes

The ICAO’s Policies on Taxation in the Field of International Air Transport calls for the total exemption from taxation of fuel used in international aviation. This exemption is now contained in inter...

Example States and State Governments

Georgia Fuel Tax Exemption Expiration

In 2019, Georgia’s General Assembly failed to renew a tax exemption on jet fuel that they’d given airlines for more than a decade. House Bill 447, intended to grant a 20-year extension to fuel tax bre...

Resource States and State Governments

Report, Aviation Emissions: Actions New York lawmakers could take to accelerate the transition to sustainable aviation

This April 2020 white paper offers options for lawmakers to accelerate progress in reducing aviation emissions. It outlines options addressing airports, hospitals, businesses and consumers, airlines,a...

Resource Congress

CE Delft: A Study on Aviation Ticket Taxes

CE Delft’s 2018 study reviewed legal disputes over five different ticket taxes. Though the study surveyed European countries, the disputes were founded on statutes relevant to the US, including Articl...

Resource States and State Governments

New Jersey’s proposed AB 4392

New Jersey’s proposed AB 4392 (2018) would have raised airline fuel taxes $0.04 per gallon on fuel purchased in New Jersey airports offering more than 20,000 commercial flights a year, using that reve...