Committee debates new heating‑fuel seller registry, tax reporting and data-sharing in S.65 draft

Summary

S.65 draft 4.3 would require annual registration of entities that sell heating fuel in Vermont, set registration data fields, and direct the Tax Department and Public Utility Commission to exchange information for a registry and two reports. Witnesses and industry raised concerns about dataset mismatches and confidentiality. No vote was taken.

The Senate Natural Resources & Energy Committee on March 13 reviewed new registry and reporting language in draft 4.3 of S.65 that would require entities that sell heating fuel for bulk delivery in Vermont to register annually with the Public Utility Commission and would ask the Tax Department and the PUC to produce two separate reports on fuel volumes and data collection methods.

Ellen, legislative counsel, summarized the new registry language: "starting on line 13 on page 19, each entity that sells heating fuel in Vermont shall register annually by June 30 of each year with the commission," and she described required registration fields including legal name, doing-business-as name, municipality and state, types of heating fuel sold, and the gallons of each type of heating fuel sold in the calendar year.

Rebecca Samaroff, deputy commissioner of the Tax Department, described the Tax Department’s fuel tax form and the monthly/annual aggregates the department can provide from existing returns. She…

Committee debates new heating‑fuel seller registry, tax reporting and data-sharing in S.65 draft

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