Show 6 Mew ew Federal Gas Tax Increase Jumps Statewide Rate To go Forty Percent With the million a year f increase in the federal gasoline tax t that hat h a t went i into n to effect Thursday October 1 Utah car owners will be paying 40 cents in tax lax on every dollars dollar's worth of gasoline they buy This was brought out today r I by John H. H Klas executive di director di- di I rector of the Utah Petroleum Council who noted that the new cent 4 federal tax added to Utah's cent 6 tate state tax rate adds up to In taxes on every ten-gallon ten purchase which he said is equivalent to a 40 per percent percent percent cent sales tax on gasoline Klas asserted that the so- so called penny increase will raise laise the average tax on gasoline gaso gaso- line in this state to 80 00 a year F per vehicle Total motor fuel collections in the state will climb to an estimated 31 million a year of which million will go to the federal government The constantly mounting tax burden on gasoline tends to ob obscure obscure obscure ob- ob the fact that this is one product on which national average averI average aver aver- I age consumer price has advanced ed no more than 6 per cent over the past ten years although official indexes show that retail prices generally have gone up 21 per cent Klas said The uThe only real inflation with regard to motor fuel costs has been the 55 per cent increase in average gasoline tax rate that has taken place nationally since 1949 Following is the history of statewide increases of the tax here since Utah's first gasoline tax was imposed in 1923 at the original 25 cent rate 1923 State gasoline tax first imposed at a gallon 1925 State tax increased to a gallon 1932 Federal tax imposed at atIe Ic lc rate State tax to total a gallon 1933 Federal tax increased to total a gallon 1934 Federal tax reduced to lc Ic total a gallon 1940 Federal tax increased again to total a gal gal- lon 1951 Federal tax increased to State tax lax increased to total a gallon 1956 Federal tax increased to total Bc a gallon 1957 State tax increased to total a gallon 1959 Federal tax increased to c total lOc a gallon |