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County officials warn proposed state tax shift could reduce gas-tax revenue for local roads
Summary
Council members raised concerns about a proposed House bill that would shift gas-tax incidence toward producers or refineries (a production tax), which could lower local gas-tax-derived road funding; officials plan to coordinate with legislators, the governor's office and the League of Cities and Towns, and to lobby against the change.
County officials used the meeting to flag a pending state proposal that they said could reduce funding for local roads.
Speaker 6 described a bill circulating in the House that would reduce the gas tax by moving the tax onto producers or by changing taxation at refineries (described in the transcript as a production tax). Officials expressed…
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