BISMARCK (North Dakota Monitor) – North Dakota motorists won’t see an increase in the gas tax.
Members of the House previously advanced a 5-cent increase to the motor fuels tax to support maintenance of roads and bridges. It would have been North Dakota’s first gas tax increase in 20 years.
But the Senate unanimously defeated a separate proposal with a 3-cent gas tax increase. Opponents to raising the gas tax said it didn’t make sense to reduce property taxes for citizens while at the same time raising another tax.
In a compromise, the Legislature removed the gas tax increase from the Department of Transportation budget that was approved Friday.
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