Sentences with phrase «recent gas tax»

There are four other propositions on the June 5 primary ballot, including state constitutional amendments about how to spend money from the state's recent gas tax increase and cap - and - trade fees.

Mountaineer State drivers experience their most recent gas tax increase in 2017 — about 3.5 cents per gallon.

Not exact matches

In recent years, Vermont increased the gas tax, and it is now 32 cents per gallon.

While the campaign trail in Strathmore - Brooks, Mr. Jean and candidate Derek Fildebrandt cleverly walked around town with a giant arrow in hand pointing out services and commodities, like alcohol and gas, which became more expensive due to tax increases in the recent provincial budget.

The increase in gas prices due to higher crude oil prices means OPEC is canceling out the gains of US consumers from the recent US tax bill.

Since the three main Westminster political parties all endorse the conclusions of Sir Ian Wood's recent review on how to maximise the economic recovery of oil and gas from the UK Continental Shelf (Search for UKCS Maximising Recovery Review Final Report, here), and its tacit underlying fiscal premises (namely that there is a need for a simplified fiscal regime to incentivise investment and drilling activity, as well as to ease the burden upon the new regulator of the upstream sector), it does not take the gift of prophecy to appreciate that the ultimate outcome of this subsequent review on the shape of the UK fiscal regime seems foreordained; namely, a return to the situation that prevailed before the introduction of SC, whereby the only levy on income from oil and gas fields is to be Corporation Income Tax at the standard rate levied on the likes of Starbucks and Amazon.

The most recent reduction in sales tax receipts and its connection to what's been happening — happily for motorists — at gas stations is documented in the just - issued report by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.

In addition, the cost of living for every adult in our country has skyrocketed over the recent decades; to have a job, you have to have a vehicle to get to and from work; you have to buy gas for that vehicle and keep it in good working order; you have taxes on that vehicle every year, and you have to keep the registration up to date on that vehicle; you have to have insurance on that vehicle, or you risk a fine.

In his recent article, Rick notes how baseline fees (gas, taxes, etc...) start at $ 523 right now, an amount already blowing most travelers» budgets.

Still, people have been saying for a long time that we need a higher gas tax to pay for our crumbling infrastructure, and the recent nose - dive in oil prices might provide the perfect opportunity to phase in a higher tax rate without breaking anyone's bank.

Other climate and energy campaigners see far too weak a plan, with Charles Komanoff of the Carbon Tax Center making this trenchant observation about how recent progress on emissions (through the surprise shift from coal to gas and rise in energy efficiency) compares to the planned cuts:

Recent polls show a solid majority of Americans reject the man - made global - warming theory pushed by Obama, the UN, and other governments desperate to impose new taxes and regulations on CO2 — a natural gas exhaled by humans and required for plants, human emissions of which make up a fraction of one percent of all the greenhouse gases present naturally in the atmosphere.

Momentum is in part coming from a recent NBC / Wall Street Journal poll that found Americans to be quite receptive to this kind of legislation, where 74 % of Americans support «eliminating tax credits for the oil and gas industries.»

So, nothing bad so far, nothing bad for a long, long time means the prudent thing to do is to stop deploying and subsidizing wind and solar (Europe is scaling back now), no new carbon taxes and even repeal recent ones (Australia, Canada and soon to be Europe), allow more exploration for natural gas (the US and soon to be Europe and more), build nukes (the rational).

A recent ad put out by her campaign argues that «Hillary Clinton knows it's time to act, take some of the windfall profits of big oil to pay to suspend the gas tax this summer, investigate the oil giants for price gouging and collusion.»

Kevin Drum's recent post on the low price elasticity of demand for oil has reignited an old debate over gas taxes and energy innovation.

The losses will be a blow to Bowman Gilfillan, but the Johannesburg - headquartered firm has recruited across a number of practices in recent months, making hires in tax and business rescue last month, dispute resolution, real estate and mergers and acquisition in May, and private equity and oil and gas in October 2015.