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Show GASOLINE TAX IN VARIOUS STATES (Prepared by the United Statea Department of Agriculture.) Gasoline tuxes collected by the several sev-eral states yielded a revenue of $60,-108,734 $60,-108,734 in the first half of 1925 of which $53,814,240 is applicable to road work, according to a report by the bureau of public roads of the' United -States Department of Agriculture. At the beginning of the year there were 13 states which did not tax gasoline. At the present time a tax is imposed in all states except Illinois, Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, New Jersey and New York. On July 1 the tax per gallon was 5 cents In one state, 4 cents in two" states, 3 cents in one state, 3 cents in 12 states, 2Vi cents in one state, 2 cents in 23 states and 1 cent In five states. The rates of taxation on June 30 and the revenue derived in the first six months of 1925 were as follows: Tax rate, Gross tax States and cents per receipts, D. C. gal., June Jan. 1 to 30,1925. June 30, '25 Alabama 2 S 963.520 Arizona 3 401,438 Arkansas 4 1,520,789 California 2 7.614.667 Colorado 2 ' 914,962 Connecticut 1 627,671 Delaware 2 157,291 Florida 3 2,731,387 Georgia 3 1,837,203 Idaho 2 339,466 Illinois 0 Indiana 3 1 S,214,588 Iowa 2 978.855 Kansas 2 892,208 Kentucky 3 ' 1,347,499 Louisiana 2 1,091,691 Maine 2 1 202.477 Maryland 2 870,975 Massachusetts ...0 Michigan .' 2 3,385,500 Minnesota 2 1,260,839 Mississippi 3 1,079,701 Missouri 2 2,169,902 Montana 2 226,229 Nebraska 2 681.215 Nevada ,3 2 100,228 New Hampshire. .2 263,027 New Jersey 0 New Mexico 3 185,019 New York 0 North Carolina ..4 i,782,242 North Dakota ...1 250.150 Ohio . 2 2,515,435 Oklahoma 3 2,150,649 Oregon 3 1,336,593 Pennsylvania 2 4,667,752 Rhode Island 1 45,848 South Carolina. . .5 1,583,910 South Dakota 3 772,937 Tennessee 3 1,380.898 Texas 1 2.113.572 Utah 3'6 429,363 Vermont' 2 171.867 Virginia 3 1,6S1,7S6 Washington 2 1,445,786 West Virginia. 4 2 632.280 Wisconsin 2 779, 83S Wyoming 2i ISO. 190 Dist. of Col'bia.,2 3S9.391 Total 60,108,734 1 Refunds excluded. 2 Changed to 3 cents on July 11, 1925. 3 Changed to 4 cents on July 1, 1925. 4 Changed to 2 .cents on July 1, 1925. |