| Title | The Utilization Fee and the Management Regulation for the Land of Road |
| Dept | IOT |
| Year | 1999 |
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| Summary | Based on the user fee concept, this study drafts the (Regulation for the Collection and Management of Road Utilization Fee), to serve as a part of the legal infrastructure for the Amendment of the Highway Law submitted by the Executive Yuan. Road utilization referred to in this study covers national freeways, provincial roads, district roads, village roads, and urban roads under the highway authority. After literature review, interviews of officials, and experts panel discussions, conclusions and suggestions are derived as follows. (1) Roads are national properties for public usage. Road usage is managed by highway authority. Road utilization fee can be collected without conflicting any related laws. (2) Except under Special Laws* claims, road utilization fee should be charged to every user, including public and private organizations, and even the existing roads not yet acquired by the government, but not applicable to planned roads not yet acquired by the government. (3) For easy calculation and to reflect economic differences, suggested fee formula is: (4) Road utilization fee = effective road utilization area x existing average land price of the district or city x concession rate differentiated by usage type (at grade, elevated or underground) and purpose x adjusting factor reflecting pipe/cable economic value, violation records, participation in common pipe construction, and other policy considerations. (5) Each highway authority is suggested to set up a special fund for depositing and managing the road utilization fee collected. (6) Under the study assumptions, increased rates of utility costs due to road utilization fee collection are minor. The additional expense per household is estimated to be less than 0.31%, which is expected to be acceptable. |
| Post date | 1999/12/12 |
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