{"id":2892,"date":"2023-02-24T01:26:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T01:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2023-02-24T02:37:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T02:37:02","slug":"lower-the-gas-tax-increase-tax-on-evs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/lower-the-gas-tax-increase-tax-on-evs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower the Gas tax. Increase Tax on EVs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Utah wants to lower the gas taxes and add a new excise tax on electricity charging for EVs. <a href=\"https:\/\/le.utah.gov\/~2023\/bills\/static\/HB0301.html\">HB 301 (2023 | UT) <\/a> The gas tax would decrease from 16.5% to 14.2%. The excise tax on EV charging would be a new 12.5% tax on electricity from charging stations. Opponents say this creates a 3 layer taxation on EVs as EV owners currently pay sales and franchise taxes if they use charging stations that have a fee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/renewable-energy\/2023\/02\/15\/gas-would-be-cheaper-charging-evs\/\">Salt Lake Tribune | Gas would be cheaper and charging EVs more expensive if this bill passes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utah wants to lower the gas taxes and add a new excise tax on electricity charging for EVs. HB 301 (2023 | UT) The gas tax would decrease from 16.5% to 14.2%. The excise tax on EV charging would be a new 12.5% tax on electricity from charging stations. Opponents say this creates a 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2896,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions\/2896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}