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Build America Transportation Investment Center (BATIC) Institute: An AASHTO Center for Excellence
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Connecticut

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 Motor Fuel Taxes
What's this: Effective Date | Total - Non-light Duty Vehicles
  Gasoline Diesel  
Excise Tax Rate (cents/gallon) 25 46.5  
State Fees (cents/gallon) 0 0  
State Sales Taxes (cents/gallon) 0 0  
Other Taxes (cents/gallon) 14.3 0  
Local Taxes (cents/gallon) 0 0  
Total (cents/gallon) 39.3 46.5
Total - Non-light Duty Vehicles(cents/gallon) - 46.5  
Effective Date 7/1/2000 7/1/2019  
Histogram View state benchmarking data for 1992 to 2019 in graphical (histogram) format.
Other taxes for gasoline include a petroleum products gross receipts earnings tax collected at the wholesale level. The stated rate is 8.1% (although the effective rate is 8.81% with a cap at $3/gal wholesale) on the gross earnings of the first sale of specific petroleum products in the state (as of 7/1/13). The amount shown is based on the stated rate and the wholesale price of gasoline in CT as of December. It is intended to go to Special Transportation Fund but is used for other purposes as well.

2016 Snapshot data is derived from the 2016 Transportation Governance and Finance.

1992-2019 data is derived from the Census Bureau, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Bureau of Labor Statistics, FHWA Highway Statistics, American Petroleum Institute, state government websites (motor fuel tax data), and toll facility owner/operator websites.


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