{"id":295,"date":"2015-09-17T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/09\/17\/lege-trend-gas-tax-reforms-in-a-southern-state-improve-transportation-funding\/"},"modified":"2015-09-17T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T18:16:00","slug":"lege-trend-gas-tax-reforms-in-a-southern-state-improve-transportation-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/lege-trend-gas-tax-reforms-in-a-southern-state-improve-transportation-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege Trend: Gas Tax Reforms in a Southern State Improve Transportation Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year Georgia tinkered with its gas tax to address a\u00a0transportation funding deficit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Georgia&#8217;s Gas Tax Reform looks like this:<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;Drivers pay 26 cents for every gallon of unleaded gasoline and 29 cents per gallon for diesel fuel. The new single fuel tax replaced a system of excise and prepaid local and state taxes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Georgia threw in some other tax reforms too<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new $5 nightly fee on\u00a0hotel and motel overnight stays\u00a0generated $14.9 million in revenues last month.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>A new highway impact fee generated $844,000 last month<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Revenues Went up in year to year comparison: 13.6% increase<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gwinnettdailypost.com\/news\/2015\/sep\/14\/deal-state-revenues-up-136-percent-in-august\/\">Gwinette Daily Post:\u00a0Deal: State revenues up 13.6 percent in August<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year Georgia tinkered with its gas tax to address a\u00a0transportation funding deficit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Georgia&#8217;s Gas Tax Reform looks like this:<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;Drivers pay 26 cents for every gallon of unleaded gasoline and 29 cents per gallon for diesel fuel. The new single fuel tax replaced a system of excise and prepaid local and state taxes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Georgia threw in some other tax reforms too<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new $5 nightly fee on\u00a0hotel and motel overnight stays\u00a0generated $14.9 million in revenues last month.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>A new highway&#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":[8,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","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=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}