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Show Highway users pay large percent taxes Special taxes levied solely on highway users accounted for more tnan zi percent of total state tax collections in the United States during fiscal 1965. The states collected $26.1 billion, bil-lion, of which $6.3 billion came from levies on motor fuel and motor vehicles and from drivers' driv-ers' license fees. State motor fuel taxes alone averaging 6.5 cents a gallon amounted to $4.3 billion. Vehicle Ve-hicle taxes totaled $1.9 billion, while drivers' license fees added up to more than $150 million. Of the 50 states, Nebraska relied most heavily from those sources. The next 10 states and the percentages of total taxes provided pro-vided by highway user levies were : New Hampshire, 46; New Jersey, 42; South Dakota, 40; Wyoming, 38; Iowa, 37; Ohio, 36; North Dakota, 34; and Virginia, Vir-ginia, Oklahoma and Florida, 33 per cent each. |