The article reports on the possible increase in the gas tax in Minnesota. In November, more voters supported dedicating funds to transportation than re-elected Governor Tim Pawlenty. Both houses of the state legislature have voted to raise the tax by 10 cents per gallon, but Pawlenty has ...
ST. PAUL, Minn.-- On the eve of the last day of session, Minnesota lawmakers sent a tax bill with $3 billion in cuts and a transportation funding package with a gas tax increase and a new retail delivery fee to Gov. Tim Walz's desk. The legislature is to ad...
Akshay Rao, a professor at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management who has tracked gas prices for 40 years, said the story through the decades has remained pretty much the same: there are times of the year when it's more expensive than others — like spring and summer — ...
South Dakotadoes not have an individual or corporate income tax, which keeps more money in residents' and business owners' pockets. Natural gas and electricity prices for residents and businesses aremuch lower in South Dakota than the national average, according to the Energy Information Administratio...
and free menstrual products in schools. …Taxes on most Minnesotans will be going up to pay for all this. Gas taxes will be hiked by as much as five cents a gallon over the next four years. Sales taxes will increase by one percentage point. A payroll tax will be added to finance the...
path to the top is marked by a carefully crafted and still controversial strategy byGov. Mark Dayton, the first Democrat to hold the office in two decades. The hallmark of his plan is something most governors seeking to win the hearts of business would never dream of: a big tax increase....
South Dakota does not have an individual or corporate income tax, which keeps more money in residents' and business owners' pockets. Natural gas and electricity prices for residents and businesses are much lower in South Dakota than the national average, according to the Energy Information Administr...
The gas tax was always intended to create revenue to be used towards new infrastructure, but in 1990, that changed. Congress approved a package in which the gas tax would be raised from $0.091 to $0.14 a gallon, but half of the additional revenue created would be put toward reducing the...
and an additional $300 million in one-time transportation funding from bonding. These provisions include funding for road and bridge projects across the state — without raising the gas tax or increasing license tab fees. In addition, Senate Republicans finally resolved the fatally-flawed Minnesota ...
The gas tax was always intended to create revenue to be used towards new infrastructure, but in 1990, that changed. Congress approved a package in which the gas tax would be raised from $0.091 to $0.14 a gallon, but half of the additional revenue created would be put toward reducing the...