Post by Logan on Mar 2, 2016 4:56:20 GMT -6
A proposed 1 percent increase in the West Virginia sales tax would be dedicated to highways. The tax, and other measures under consideration in the Legislature, would raise nearly $290 million a year for road construction and maintenance in the Mountain State.
Heeding a call from Sen. Robert Plymale, D-Wayne, to take bold steps for state highways funding, the West Virginia Senate on Tuesday adopted a plan to raise nearly $290 million a year for road construction and maintenance — primarily through a 1 percent increase in the state sales tax that would be dedicated to highways.
“We are at a crisis in West Virginia, as it relates to our roads,” Plymale said afterward. “Constituents have been telling me for three, four or five years, ‘Do something to fix them,’ and they’re willing to pay more for it.”
Plymale’s amendment, adopted on a voice vote, added the new funding onto a bill (SB 555) that would raise between $17 million and $40 million a year by adding 3 cents a gallon to the wholesale gas tax in years when gas prices are at $2 a gallon or less.
See more at: www.wvgazettemail.com/news/20160301/wv-senate-oks-1-sales-tax-rise-for-highways-work
Heeding a call from Sen. Robert Plymale, D-Wayne, to take bold steps for state highways funding, the West Virginia Senate on Tuesday adopted a plan to raise nearly $290 million a year for road construction and maintenance — primarily through a 1 percent increase in the state sales tax that would be dedicated to highways.
“We are at a crisis in West Virginia, as it relates to our roads,” Plymale said afterward. “Constituents have been telling me for three, four or five years, ‘Do something to fix them,’ and they’re willing to pay more for it.”
Plymale’s amendment, adopted on a voice vote, added the new funding onto a bill (SB 555) that would raise between $17 million and $40 million a year by adding 3 cents a gallon to the wholesale gas tax in years when gas prices are at $2 a gallon or less.
See more at: www.wvgazettemail.com/news/20160301/wv-senate-oks-1-sales-tax-rise-for-highways-work