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Show Gasoline Tax To Go for State Road improvement The 5-cent a gallon state tax you p&y at the service station when you tell the attendant to "fill 'er up" will be part of an almost al-most certain $10 million to be available before July 1, 1952, for the construction and maintenance of roads on the state- highway system. The total may run closer, to $11 million. . This much is clear from an analysis ana-lysis of the state tax commission's reports showing revenue collected from the gasoline tax during August. Aug-ust. August collections were on July business, and July was the first month in which the 5-cent rate of tax prevailed in Utah. The report shows the commission commis-sion collected a full 5-cent tax. on 19,427,553 gallons of gasoline during dur-ing July, or a total of $971,377.65. |