What Is a Toll?

mulham jarjnazei Wed Apr 20, 2011 9:23 pm

A toll is another term for payment. It’s often associated with
payments made on roads, bridges or ferries that carry cars. Essentially
it is a payment for passage. An additional use of the term may be seen
in things like phone calls, where the toll is collected for used of the
phone line; in this form some people do refer to calls that cost money
as toll calls.There are many toll roads throughout the world, and
some of the reasons these are established is to pay for road
maintenance or to fund various transportation projects that a region
might have, such as paying for local bus service over a road. In this
sense this is a per-use tax
and only affects the people who use the road, rather than distributing
that tax to a general population. Taxes can be a bit more complicated
and some regions assess taxes on all residents to partially fund
existence of all roads and transportation. Yet principally, the tolls
collected pay for most of the road’s costs and upkeep, and they may be
looked on with greater favor.