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Financing Port Dredging Costs: Taxes versus User Fees

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  • Talley, Wayne K.

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How should port dredging be financed, by a tax or user fee? The U.S. tax and proposed Clinton Administration national user fee programs for financing port dredging costs are reviewed. Rather than the former, a port-specific user dredging fee is proposed that satisfies the criteria: 1) the revenue from the fees should cover the dredging costs – no more, no less, 2) all vessels of the same type and size that use a given dredged waterway should pay the same fee and 3) the fee for a given type and size of vessel should not exceed its standalone dredging cost, thereby promoting cost efficiency in dredging. Further, theoretical support is provided for non-users who benefit from dredged waterways and vessel cargo to be involved in the financing of port dredging costs.

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  • Talley, Wayne K., 2007. "Financing Port Dredging Costs: Taxes versus User Fees," 48th Annual Transportation Research Forum, Boston, Massachusetts, March 15-17, 2007 207937, Transportation Research Forum.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:ndtr07:207937
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.207937
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    1. Shashi Kumar, 2002. "User Charges for Port Cost Recovery: the US Harbour Maintenance Tax Controversy," Maritime Economics & Logistics, Palgrave Macmillan;International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME), vol. 4(2), pages 149-163, June.
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