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Most states tax the value of residents' motor vehicles. In recent political debates over the future of these levies, the relative effects of these taxes on different socioeconomic groups have been a prominent question. By linking data from the Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey with estimates of vehicle values from consumer vehicle pricing grades, the socioeconomic and demographic incidence of California's Vehicle License Fee is examined. After the effects of state and federal income tax deductions are taken into account, the fee is found to be as regressive as the state's sales tax.

The Norwegian salmon farming industry is one of the most important Norwegian export industries. The industry is also regulated to secure balanced and sustainable development. Current regulatory practice consists of licensing access to sea water. The government recently set an upper bound on the license fees; the purpose of our paper is to estimate the shadow price of the property right to determine whether the current license fee limit is 'too low' as claimed by critics. We model the production process with a directional input distance function; output includes sold salmon as well as the increased biomass of salmon inventory. Inputs include labor, feed, pen capacity, fingerlings, capital, and other variable costs. We estimate a quadratic frontier directional distance function; our mean estimate of the shadow value of the licenses is below the current price ceiling, but has a range such that the upper bound on license fees is binding for some salmon farmers.

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to waiving certain driver's license and handgun license fees for certain applicants who hold a certification in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Since 1935, the Vehicle License Fee (VLF) has been assessed on all privately owned registered vehicles in California. It is a property tax currently set at 2% of a vehicle's value, based upon its most recent purchase price and a fixed depreciation schedule. The Legislative Analyst's Office has estimated that the VLF, if unchanged, would have raised approximately $3.9 billion in the 1998-99 fiscal year. In light of the current fiscal surplus, the Legislature recently reduced the VLF by 25%, with possible additional reductions in future years. Because little information is available on who will benefit from this change, the Senate Office of Research asked the California Policy Research Center and the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at the University of California, Berkeley, to prepare this analysis of the incidence of the VLF. In this report, we examine the relative payments of households having different income levels, races, and locations; payments from businesses; and the relationship between the VLF and "Blue Book" vehicle values. The Department of Motor Vehicles does not collect all of the data necessary for this analysis, such as household income. Therefore, the analysis of VLF payments by California households is based on data from the 1995 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey, conducted by the Federal Highway Administration. This survey included detailed data on over 2,000 California households with over 4,000 vehicles. For each vehicle, an estimated purchase price was obtained from the Kelley Blue Book and the VLF calculated. The analysis of VLF payments by California businesses is based on a California Energy Commission database that identifies commercial and governmental fleets from the vehicles registered with the Department of Motor Vehicles. The methodology is described in detail later in this report.

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Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the collection of local permit and license fees authorized under the Alcoholic Beverage Code; authorizing a fee.