Gas Tax Increase Follow-Up (Bulk Storage of Motor Fuel)

With the impending increase in the gas tax occurring on January 1, 2017, the Department of Treasury is reminding business owners with motor fuel stored in bulk storage tanks of over 3,000 gallons that they must pay the difference between the old rate and the new rate....

MITA Ratchets Up Intensity on Gas Tax, Legislative Efforts

This week MITA began ratcheting up public pressure on legislators to deal with the problems of transportation funding in light of the Minnesota bridge collapse. There were also a number of legislative developments at both the state and local levels that are of...

Legislative Update: Gas Tax, MBT and Federal Road Dollars

If you think high gas prices have meant the end to MITA’s transportation funding initiative, think again. For the last four days articles and editorials supporting the need for more transportation funding have appeared in newspapers and television stations across the...

Gas Tax Update

Gas prices reached $3.70 a gallon just before Memorial Day and legislators have been at a virtual standstill for months because of an impasse on the state budget. Many people have asked where this leaves the transportation funding effort. Lobbying to Secure Major...

MITA Gas Tax Effort Intensifies; Radio Ads Begin Statewide

The Michigan Transportation Team (MTT) says now is the time for legislators to act and fix our transportation system in its new “Don’t Forget About Our Roads” ad campaign. MTT launched this campaign on Monday in the midst of pothole season – a time when it is most...