Show MOTORISTS ARE HARD HIT BY TAXES contribute heavily to cost of government washington A heavy share of federal era state and municipal government costs Is being borne by automobile owners throughout the united states as the result of new taxes enacted during the past two years revenue of wore more than was waa expected to accrue to the united states government through the excise tax passed by congress at its last session and which levies on gasoline oil tires and all accessories states and municipalities also have tapped new fountains of income by levying upon ator vehicle owners in the 12 years from 1010 to 1931 1031 state license and gasoline taxes alone have risen from to per capita an increase of per cent the tax bill which mr car owner in the united states paid during 1932 Is estimated at the stupendous total of this figure including the new federal tax and the state and local increases in license fees gasoline taxes municipal and personal property taxes on motor vehicles during 1931 1031 the motorist paid a national total of one tenth of the entire united states tax bill was the amount paid by motor car owners during 1931 through license fees gasoline sa soline taxes and personal property taxes on vehicles the percentage is expected to be higher when the figures for 1932 are arb available F from rom figures obtained from all parts of oc the country it appears that raising the tax on gasoline has been a favorite means of providing new revenue for states in some bomb states this levy has been pyramided pyra to the point where the gasoline tax amounts to 11 cents a gallon while the old time toll houses that once lined the nations principal highways as a means of collecting enough money to pay for the roads and keep them in repair have passed into history the modern gasoline filling station according to leaders of the automotive industry has just about taken the place of the toll house gasoline filling stations today are toll collecting agencies for federal state and in many cases for county and city governments on a basic tax of 5 cents a gallon a light passenger car consuming one gallon of gasoline each 20 miles pays a road toll tax of 50 for every miles |