{"id":2380332,"date":"2024-12-15T16:06:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T21:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wa-lawmaker-says-vehicle-sales-taxes-are-solution-to-transportation-budget-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T16:09:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T21:09:46","slug":"wa-lawmaker-says-vehicle-sales-taxes-are-solution-to-transportation-budget-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wa-lawmaker-says-vehicle-sales-taxes-are-solution-to-transportation-budget-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"WA lawmaker says vehicle sales taxes are solution to transportation budget &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwa-lawmaker-says-vehicle-sales-taxes-are-solution-to-transportation-budget-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2380332&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Washington lawmaker,Senator Curtis King,is \u200dproposing new legislation to address the state&#8217;s transportation budget by incrementally redirecting vehicle sales \u2064taxes to road funding. Currently, only 0.03%\u2063 of \u2064vehicle \u200csales taxes\u2063 contribute \u2062to the transportation budget, with the majority going to the general fund.Under \u200cthe proposed plan, \u2064the \u2063percentage allocated to transportation would increase by 16.66% each year, ultimately reaching 100%\u2064 by 2031. This initiative aims to\u2062 strengthen funding for \u200ctransportation infrastructure in\u200b Washington state.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">WA lawmaker says vehicle sales taxes are solution to transportation budget<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1912495\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>(The Center Square) &ndash; A Washington lawmaker wants to shore up the state&rsquo;s transportation budget by gradually putting sales taxes on vehicles into the roads they&rsquo;ll drive on.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>New legislation for the 2025 session offered by Senator Curtis King, R-Yakima, would increase the percentage of vehicle sales taxes devoted to the transportation budget from only .03% by 16.66% every year until it reaches 100% in 2031. The general fund currently receives the lion&rsquo;s share of the revenue.<\/p>\n<p>The statewide motor vehicle surtax of 0.03% has been collected since 2003, and applies to all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-closing-60-bricks-and-mortar-stores\/\" title=\"Disney Closing 60 Bricks-And-Mortar Stores\">retail sales<\/a>, leases and transfers of motor vehicles and is used to finance transportation improvements.<\/p>\n<p>King offered up the proposal as a partial solution to Washington&rsquo;s worsening transportation revenue problem, generating between $350 million to $400 million in the first year.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That would go to $700 to $800 in the second year and to $1.2 billion in the third year and by the sixth year, it would all be coming back to the transportation budget,&rdquo; said King.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by The Center Square, in the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/red-states-chart-faster-economic-recovery-than-blue-states\/\" title=\"Red States Chart Faster Economic Recovery Than Blue States\">recent fiscal year<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-gas-prices-hit-all-time-high-for-labor-day-weekend\/\" title=\"California Gas Prices Hit All-Time High For Labor Day Weekend\">state gas tax<\/a> has been declining since 2020 and in the latest fiscal year generated $1.6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the problem is more fuel-efficient vehicles and more electric vehicles on the road mean less revenue from gas taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Transportation officials have been studying road usage fees (pay per mile) and other ideas, but King suggests redirecting a percentage of vehicle sales taxes into the transportation preservation and maintenance account.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. King&rsquo;s bill states that a percentage of vehicle sales taxes would be dedicated to transportation funding, which would generate far more revenue for transportation projects.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s necessary because the transportation budget is very strapped in a variety of areas from maintenance and preservation to road projects that need to be completed along with the ferry system and maintenance for ferries that are going to be a real challenge for transportation&rdquo; said King in a Friday interview with The Center Square.<\/p>\n<p>King contends transportation revenue has been hijacked by other budget priorities.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When we take money from the transportation budget to do an interchange to improve traffic it opens up economic development around that interchange because we&rsquo;ve improved that,&rdquo; said King. &ldquo;All of the taxes that are improved because of that don&rsquo;t go to the transportation budget, they go the operating budget and it&rsquo;s been this way for 100 years.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>King suggested it&rsquo;s time for state budgets to be reorganized.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;From my standpoint, the transportation budget has been supporting the operating budget and I firmly believe that if we were able to do what this bill asks, after three or four years because of how we spent that money, it would come back to the operating budget in the form of new and higher taxes coming to them because of the things we do with transportation money,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As reported earlier this week by The Center Square, Washington lawmakers are pursuing the idea of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pay-per-mile-states-move-toward-user-based-road-tax\/\" title=\"Pay Per Mile: States Move Toward User-Based Road Tax\">road usage charge<\/a> to make up for lost revenue from gas taxes.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re a long way from a road usage charge in my opinion and one of my biggest issues with that is it costs about a half percent to collect the gas tax,&rdquo; said King who contended the numbers he&rsquo;s been shown on a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">road usage charge show costs<\/a> of administration are about 8%. &ldquo;But in all honesty if they tell us 8%, it&rsquo;s probably more like 10-12%, just to collect it,&rdquo; said King.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1912495\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1912495\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WA lawmaker proposes vehicle sales tax for transport budget<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2380333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Holiday-Thanksgiving-road-traffic-roads-Travel-hhyy1.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4762,46852,46851,46850,32076],"class_list":["post-2380332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-legislation","tag-transportation-budget","tag-vehicle-sales-taxes","tag-wa-lawmaker","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Holiday-Thanksgiving-road-traffic-roads-Travel-hhyy1.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380339,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380332\/revisions\/2380339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2380333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}