Pathway 4.

Energy Efficiency, Conservation, and Fuel Switching in Transportation → Aviation

4.4.3 Aviation Carbon Charges and Fuel Taxes

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

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Offers options for lawmakers to accelerate progress in reducing aviation emissions.

CE Delft: A Study on Aviation Ticket Taxes

Jurisdiction: Congress

CE Delft’s 2018 study reviewed legal disputes over five different ticket taxes.

ICAO Recommendation Against Fuel Taxes

Jurisdiction: Congress

This exemption is now contained in international law through bilateral treaties between countries called air service agreements.

Motor Fuel Tax Information by State

Jurisdiction: States and State Governments

The Federation of Tax Administrators published a September 2017 report summarizing Motor Fuel Tax Information by State

Georgia Fuel Tax Exemption Expiration

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Georgia’s General Assembly failed to renew a tax exemption on jet fuel that they’d given airlines for more than a decade.

New Jersey’s proposed AB 4392

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

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 revenue to fund train service extensions.

The American Clean Energy and Security Act

Jurisdiction: Congress

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