Nevada Senate Kills Plan to Raise Diesel Tax

A bill that would have added 7 cents to Nevada’s 27.75-cent diesel tax for all vehicles except school buses has died in the state’s Senate.

The proposal was attached to a measure that sought to tighten standards and tax collection for biodiesel, but that bill died when supporters could not get enough votes to bring it to the floor.

The tax proposal included an indexing provision tying the tax to construction costs, said Paul Enos, chief executive officer of the Nevada Motor Transport Association.

“The index would have been capped at 7.8% but in five years, [the diesel tax could] have been 50 cents and in 10 years [could] have been 73.6 cents,” he said.

Enos said the trucking industry had supported the biodiesel bill until the diesel tax amendment was attached.