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Senate passes sweeping transportation funding package, converting gas tax to percentage and adding local option
Summary
The Utah Senate passed HB 362, a comprehensive transportation funding package that converts the state's fixed cents-per-gallon gas tax to a percentage (12%) with a floor and ceiling and authorizes a local-option transportation sales tax; passage followed extended debate over tax structure and rural impacts.
The Utah Senate voted to pass House Bill 362, a multi-part transportation funding package that would convert the state's fixed gasoline excise tax into a percentage-based tax and create a local-option transportation sales tax.
Sponsor Senator Mark Jackson told colleagues the measure would "convert the current 24 and a half cents per gallon gas tax to a 12% tax," beginning Jan. 1, 2016, with protections against runaway price swings by setting a floor roughly equivalent to current cents-per-gallon revenue and capping the tax at 40' per gallon. The bill also authorizes local communities to adopt a…
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