{"id":265,"date":"2015-08-13T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/08\/13\/lege-trend-peachy-transportation-laws-impact-local-governments-in-2-ways-ends-aviation-exemptions\/"},"modified":"2015-08-13T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T21:30:00","slug":"lege-trend-peachy-transportation-laws-impact-local-governments-in-2-ways-ends-aviation-exemptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/lege-trend-peachy-transportation-laws-impact-local-governments-in-2-ways-ends-aviation-exemptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege Trend: Peachy Transportation Laws Impact Local Governments in 2 Ways. Ends Aviation Exemptions."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia this year overhauled transportation funding by passing HB 107, that will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>phase\u00a0out the State\u2019s 4% sales and use tax on motor fuel<\/li>\n<li>raises the excise tax to $0.26 cents per gallon on gasoline and $0.29 per gallon on diesel, dedicated to transportation funding<\/li>\n<li>creates an up to $100 fee on heavy trucks<\/li>\n<li>eliminates the $5,000 state income tax credit for buying an electric vehicle<\/li>\n<li>total-electric car owners\u00a0will now pay a $200 annual fee ($300 for commercial vehicles)<\/li>\n<li>adds an additional $5.00 per night statewide hotel\/motel tax dedicated to transportation; and<\/li>\n<li>sunsets a 1% sales and use tax exemption for aviation fuel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The impact to cities and counties is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>cap local sales and use taxes for the price of motor fuel at $3.00 per gallon\n<ul>\n<li>Above $3, no local sales and use tax will be collected on that amount<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>expands the ability of counties and cities to create a\u00a0transportation special purpose local option sales tax\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0the tax rate is to be a fractional rate of 0.05%, up to a maximum rate of 1.0%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.butlersnow.com\/2015\/07\/georgias-tsplost-pump\/?utm_source=Mondaq&amp;utm_medium=syndication&amp;utm_campaign=View-Original\">PFI Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia this year overhauled transportation funding by passing HB 107, that will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>phase\u00a0out the State\u2019s 4% sales and use tax on motor fuel<\/li>\n<li>raises the excise tax to $0.26 cents per gallon on gasoline and $0.29 per gallon on diesel, dedicated to transportation funding<\/li>\n<li>creates an up to $100 fee on heavy trucks<\/li>\n<li>eliminates the $5,000 state income tax credit for buying an electric vehicle<\/li>\n<li>total-electric car owners\u00a0will now pay a $200 annual fee ($300 for commercial vehicles)<\/li>\n<li>adds an&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,30,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}