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A gas pump displays the price of fuel at a gas station in McLean, Virginia, June 10, 2022. ... and it would lose more than $2 billion for every month a gas-tax suspension is in effect. Biden says ...
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The first federal gasoline tax in the United States was created on June 6, 1932, with the enactment of the Revenue Act of 1932, which taxed 1¢/gal (0.3¢/L). Since 1993, the US federal gasoline tax has been unchanged (and not adjusted for inflation of nearly 113 percent through 2023) at 18.4¢/gal (4.86¢/L).
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Proponents argued that this could reduce the gas price at the pump by about 18.4 cents a gallon for regular unleaded gasoline and 24.4 cents a gallon for diesel. If it were done, it was estimated the gas tax holiday would save consumers roughly $30 over the three-month period it would be instated. [1]
Instead, the General Assembly itself levied the tax increases—a statewide sales and use tax increase to 4.8%, a statewide increase in motor vehicle registration fees by $15, as well as, for the first time since 1986, a change in the statewide gas tax to be 3.5% of the price of a gallon of gas instead of a flat 17.5 cents per gallon. [7]
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Later that year, then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed the bill, which raised California’s gas tax for the first time in 23 years. It went up 12 cents per gallon, a 40% increase.