GREED

we are paying for bp's screw up

Regular motor fuel tax correct per gallon, but add on the sales tax on top.

I agree, the Govt. making 50 cents of every gallon is greedy.
or was you talking about "Big Oil" making 1-2 cents per dollar?

Yep someone is Greedy. Just came in from about 25 miles south of me and gas at Wal-Mart was $3.78.9

It's the same everytime....raise the price quite a bit, lower the price a few cents and everyone will be saying look cheap gas in a few months but it never gets back to the original price. Has not anyone else noticed this pattern.

The states are the big winners. With sales tax included in the pump price each time the price goes up thats more tax $$ in their pockets. It's not based on a set amount per gallon but pump price.

It's not listed on here. I wonder if that 6% is what the retailer has to pay.
http://www.gaspricewatch.com/usgastaxes.asp

Here ya go Wildkitty don't let the truth stand in your way. Taxes state per gallon and sales tax % of sale for not jut Tennessee but a few other states.

http://www.indianagasprices.com/tax_info.aspx

Some may not be old enough to remember this or even bought gas in Indiana when the sales tax was first put in place. Go to you local station and ask for $10 worth, the attendent stopped the pump short of the $10 price to make up the sales tax differance. Example if you bought that $10 worth and the sales tax was 5 cents on the $ the pump would read $9.50 not $10. It didn't take them long to set the pumps to collect the sales tax so when you ask for $10 worth thats what they read but automaticly included the sales tax in the end. It stands to reason as the price of gas goes up more state sales tax is collected.

SO I give you a chart that shows sales tax on gas is 6%. I don't think I am the one that don't get it WK. Gas let's say cost $99.9 a gallon there is a 6% sales tax set in place per $ spent in that pump price AT THE PUMP. Now gas goes to $1.99.9....that same 6% now brings in 12 cents in sales tax PER GALLON. You do the math how much sales tax is collected PER GALLON when the price hits $4.15.9, then tell me that don't amount to a nice hunk of change in the states pockets.


And as far as the $10 worth of gas it was the entire state that collected sale tax on gas this way not just one station. Rather than run it over and risk loseing money they stopped it short. If you filled up a tank then it was just like now in any store added on the final end of the deal. They had these neat little charts laying beside the cash register to tell you how much additional tax to collect. But remember very few people filled their gas tanks back in those days and gas was much cheaper.

I just talked to a friend that owns several stations in the Paducah area and he told me the sales tax was set in the price PER GAL.

He also told me that if ANY PUMP in the State of Kentucky automaticly included the sales tax in the end (YOUR WORDS)the owner would go to jail.

The price PER GALLION you see at the pump INCULES ALL FEDERAL AND STATE GAS TAXES AND STATE SALES TAXES.

They DO NOT add anything AT THE END like you've been saying.

If you cannot understand that I can't help it.

Just don't get it do ya.....6% of $4 is more than 6% of $2, double in fact. The sales tax is added to what the gas station operator pays wholesale and reflects that additonal tax on the pump today. Thats all I am saying...the state is reaping a windfall in extra tax $ in the way of sales tax collected.

It is added at the total cost of the sale.....the higher the price the more tax you pay. If I bought 10 gallon of gas at $2 a gallon with a 6% sales tax how much sales taxes would I pay ? Now if I bought that same 10 gallon at $4 a gallon how much sales tax would I pay. You just want to argue as usual. Read just what you want to read but don't understand what is being said.

The state is still reaping a windfall of sales tax collected. The regular motor fuel tax stays the same if gas is $2 a gallon or $10 a gallon

It is added at the total cost of the sale.....the higher the price the more tax you pay. If I bought 10 gallon of gas at $2 a gallon with a 6% sales tax how much sales taxes would I pay ? Now if I bought that same 10 gallon at $4 a gallon how much sales tax would I pay. You just want to argue as usual. Read just what you want to read but don't understand what is being said.

The state is still reaping a windfall of sales tax collected. The regular motor fuel tax stays the same if gas is $2 a gallon or $10 a gallon

I think what Ben is trying to say is that although the sales tax rate per gallon is the same, you end up paying more in sales tax when the price per gallon goes up.

For example, if the price on the pump is $2.00 per gallon and the sales tax rate is 5%, approximately 10 cents of the 2.00 is sales tax (the non-sales tax price is effectively $1.90). If the price per gallon on the pump goes up to $4.00 per gallon and the sales tax rate is still 5%, now approximately 20 cents of the $4.00 is sales tax (the non-sales tax price is effectively $3.80).

I think what Ben is trying to say is that although the sales tax rate per gallon is the same, you end up paying more in sales tax when the price per gallon goes up.

For example, if the price on the pump is $2.00 per gallon and the sales tax rate is 5%, approximately 10 cents of the 2.00 is sales tax (the non-sales tax price is effectively $1.90). If the price per gallon on the pump goes up to $4.00 per gallon and the sales tax rate is still 5%, now approximately 20 cents of the $4.00 is sales tax (the non-sales tax price is effectively $3.80).

I think what Ben is trying to say is that although the sales tax rate per gallon is the same, you end up paying more in sales tax when the price per gallon goes up.

For example, if the price on the pump is $2.00 per gallon and the sales tax rate is 5%, approximately 10 cents of the 2.00 is sales tax (the non-sales tax price is effectively $1.90). If the price per gallon on the pump goes up to $4.00 per gallon and the sales tax rate is still 5%, now approximately 20 cents of the $4.00 is sales tax (the non-sales tax price is effectively $3.80).

I understand it-I'm just glad that Va only has the "cents per gallon" tax

Good Lord!!! We get everything from some people but the real reasons.

Do you have any links at all to prove that??

The Federal AND state taxes are based on PER GALLION, NOT pump price.

Here ya go trying to prove me wrong from your first post...read it again slower..The federal and state motor fuel tax has stayed the same PER gallon...the amount of sales tax collected is based on the pump price Per $. Again do the math gas at $1 a gallon the state collects 6 cents per gallon...at $4 a gallon the state collects 24 cents PER Gallon. No place in my post was anything said about state or federal motor fuel tax.