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Gas Tax Going Up

The half-percent increase in Connecticut’s gross receipts tax on petroleum is scheduled to go into effect in July.  The current gross receipts tax of seven percent is passed on to consumers, hidden in the price of gasoline, and costs motorists nearly twenty cents a gallon.  The scheduled increase will translate into roughly three additional cents per gallon of [...]