user fees
Pay-to-use costs
User fees are charges levied by governments or institutions for specific services rather than funding them through general taxes.
Parks charge entrance fees, courts charge filing fees, and airports charge passenger fees.
The term often appears in policy debates about whether services should be funded by users or taxpayers: The city proposed user fees for the municipal pool instead of raising property taxes.
- tollsCharges for passage
- toll roadHighway requiring payment
- chargesAmounts owed or alleged
- service chargeFee for being served
- admissionEntry or confession
parking · parking meter · permits · licenses · tuition · copays · fines · surcharges · entrance · registration · membership · access · turnstile · meter · booth · ticket · swipe · gate
- chargessurcharges, levies, service charges, tolls, hotel tax
- federal revenuefederal taxes, tax revenue, revenue collection, tax collection, IRS
- government chargesincome taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, customs duties, excise taxes
- government feesbuilding permit, business license, service charge, building permits, business permits
- municipal revenuelocal taxes, property tax, sales tax, land tax, tax levies
- public revenuetax revenue, sales tax, tax collection, revenue collection, municipal tax
user feesprogressive taxation
Rates increase with income
block grants · public funding · public subsidy · income taxes · government funding
user feesopen access
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public goods · commons · universal access · free admission · entitlement programs