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* USA - OOIDA Call to Action
Nevada truckers: time is running out! A bill –AB595 – that would add a weight-distance tax of 15 cents per mile to large trucksNV,USA -OOIDA (Grain Valley,MO - Press Release) -May 7, 2007: -- ... The bill –AB595 – is waiting for approval in the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee. Take action now, and speak out against this revenue-generating tax... The AB595, which would add the weight-distance tax for trucks weighing more than 55,000 pounds, including local garbage trucks and cement haulers...
Supporters say imposing more taxes on the trucking industry is a better way to fund road work than fuel taxes. But truckers already pay 40 percent of the fuel taxes and fees that fund transportation in the state... A weight-distance tax would be detrimental to the trucking industry in the state of Nevada, and would be particularly economically damaging and discriminatory to small businesses...
Supporters say imposing more taxes on the trucking industry is a better way to fund road work than fuel taxes. But truckers already pay 40 percent of the fuel taxes and fees that fund transportation in the state... A weight-distance tax would be detrimental to the trucking industry in the state of Nevada, and would be particularly economically damaging and discriminatory to small businesses...
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