Show Eight-day gas tax Tops first Year was imposed January marks the day on which total gasoline collections in since the beginning of this new will reach the sum of Utah motor-sis now-pay as much gasoline tax in 8 days as they originally paid in I whole This was pointed by T. Golden Roosevelt Committee of the Utah Petroleum in commenting on present estimates that Ut-ih car owners will pay 6 million this year in direct taxes on to-eluding the stale tax and the increased federal combined taxes on gasoline in this state now adding an approximate 46 percent to the price of the this extreme tax burden is causing he Collins noted that the 1960 estimate indicates that tax revenues arc now into state at the rate of million every 11 days This means as much tax in days as the til a whole following enactment of Utah's original gasoline tax in year's tax estimate on the assumption sales will continue as in the despite signs of growing public resistance to this tax noted particularly in the present trend toward economy Collins is a surprise to most motorists that today's regular gasoline excluding is below the average price of the gasoline of 40 years Other retail prices are now 44 percent a bow the 1920 but gasoline prices except for 11 le tax are actually lower |