Supply Chain-Based Solution to Prevent Fuel Tax Evasion
The proposed research is a unique concept for targeting fuel tax evasion that could result in two important breakthroughs. The first is in-line sensors to authenticate nanoscale markers in the fuel. The second is integration of exterior sensors to detect the volume of fuel in a tank truck and determine the open or closed position of the valve and global positioning system (GPS) communication. The research addresses preventing three types of fuel tax evasion: (1) non-taxable or low-taxable petrochemical products from being "blended" with taxable fuel products; (2) taxable fuel products from cross-jurisdictional evasion (i.e. paying State tax in a low tax State but selling in a high tax State); (3) selling "exported" fuel domestically.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Program Information: Exploratory Advanced Research
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
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Sponsor Organizations:
Federal Highway Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Project Managers:
Dougherty, Michael
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Performing Organizations:
Department of Energy
Oak Ridge National Laboratories
P.O. Box 2001, MS M-61
Oakridge, TN United States 37831-6472 - Start Date: 20090817
- Expected Completion Date: 0
- Actual Completion Date: 20140930
- Source Data: RiP Project 34586
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Exports; Fuel mixtures; Fuel taxes; Global Positioning System; Sensors; Supply chain management
- Uncontrolled Terms: Tax evasion
- Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01572676
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Department of Transportation
- Files: RIP
- Created Date: Aug 12 2015 1:01AM