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House panel advances bill to tax electricity at DC fast chargers, sets 3¢ per kWh rate
Summary
The House Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Committee on Jan. 23 advanced House Bill 24 to extend Wyoming''s fuel-tax framework to electricity used at DC fast chargers, adopting amendments that set the per-kilowatt-hour rate at 3 cents and reduce an annual decal fee.
The House Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Committee advanced House Bill 24 on Jan. 23, a measure that gives the Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) authority to collect a fuel-equivalent tax on electricity sold at DC fast chargers, and sets a per-kilowatt-hour rate of 3 cents and an annual decal fee of $100.
The bill, as amended by the committee, changes the existing alternative fuels statute to identify DC fast chargers as the taxable customer for electricity and standardizes the unit of measurement to kilowatt-hours for tax administration. The committee approved several technical and substantive amendments before voting 9-0 to move the bill out of committee.
Committee members said the bill does not create a new tax vehicle so much as it provides WYDOT a mechanism to collect a tax the existing statute already contemplated. Wayne Hassinger, fuel tax administration, WYDOT, said the measure "gives legs…
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