No Governor Corbett, Pennsylvania Doesn’t Need Higher Gasoline Taxes

By: leoknepper (Diary)  |  January 24th at 12:29 PM  | 

At 39 cents per gallon, Pennsylvania currently is the 7th-highest taxed state for gasoline.  As part of his transportation initiative, Gov. Corbett has proposed lifting the cap on the “oil company franchise tax” and making that tax burden even higher. This is a relatively obscure tax that is paid directly by gas stations based on the wholesale price of gasoline.  Right now the maximum wholesale | Read More »