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Senate hearing: gas-tax structure hybridized; fuel revenue declining despite higher miles traveled
Summary
Committee heard that Vermont has a hybrid gas-tax system (fixed plus variable assessments), state assessments plus federal tax total about 50.77¢/gallon as of the presentation, and that more efficient vehicles are shrinking per-gallon revenue even as vehicle miles traveled have returned to or exceeded pre-pandemic levels.
Logan Bilberry of the Joint Fiscal Office described Vermont’s gasoline tax structure and recent revenue trends to the Senate Transportation Committee on March 18.
Bilberry said Vermont operates a hybrid gas-tax system combining a fixed cents-per-gallon component and two variable, percentage-based assessments. "We have a hybrid gas tax system. So there's a fixed and two variable assessments," he said, and he reported the state portion plus assessments totaled about 32.37¢ per gallon while the federal tax adds 18.4¢, putting total tax and assessment near 50.77¢ per gallon at the time of the…
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