GAO Suggests Tax Increases for Trucking
WASHINGTON — The General Accounting Office told Congress last week that it could raise truck taxes or authorize more toll roads to help boost transportation infrastructure investment and the Highway Trust Fund.
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JayEtta Z. Hecker, the GAO's director of physical infrastructure issues, offered those and other ideas in testimony at a May 9 hearing before the Senate Finance Committee.
She also suggested putting in place a federal weight-distance tax on trucking, to replace several other types of existing taxes on trucking and its equipment.
The GAO is a nonpartisan auditing arm of Congress that investigates issues at the request of lawmakers and makes recommendations.
