What Fuels Gas Taxes?
(WorldNews Netherlands)

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting explores what`s behind increasing gas taxes and how they can fluctuate from state to state What: Gas taxes have often been considered something of an integrated `user fee` to pay for construction and repair of US roads, bridges, and interstate highways. As the cost of gasoline at the pump has increased since the 1970s, many states and the federal government had been somewhat reluctant to add to the pain at the pump by increasing gas taxes. The federal government has not raised the gas tax since 1993. No state raised gas taxes between 2010 to 2012, when the cost of gasoline was rising to some of its highest levels in history. Deferred maintenance on...