Gas tax hike takes effect Saturday in Duval County

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Starting this month, the state taxation successful Jacksonville is doubling from 6 cents to 12 cents a gallon. News4Jax newsman Brie Isom has been driving astir to spot if Saturday's prices bespeak the change.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Starting Saturday successful Duval County, you’re going to beryllium paying much astatine the pump due to the fact that of a section state taxation that is present successful effect.

It’s a 6-cent per gallon summation astatine the pumps. That means the state taxation is present astatine 12 cents a gallon successful total.

Jacksonville City Council voted against repealing the 6-cent summation past month. The assembly originally voted connected the program backmost successful May.

“Thank you to the City Council for joining maine successful a committedness to each vicinity and each household to marque our metropolis amended for the adjacent generation,” Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry. “That means investing successful our parks, roadways, and successful the infrastructure that makes our metropolis work. I judge successful keeping promises. To guarantee that happens, we person identified the gross needed to marque these investments. We were each are elected to marque the pugnacious choices, and that’s what it takes to physique a amended Jacksonville.”

Now, taxpayers volition spot the quality astatine a clip erstwhile drivers successful Northeast Florida and crossed the state are already seeing higher prices astatine the pump. Many radical News4JAX spoke with Saturday voiced concerns, saying state is already costly and they’re disquieted whether the taxation volition beryllium utilized successful the close way.

The caller state taxation could rise $960 cardinal implicit the adjacent 30 years.

Here’s a breakdown of the plans successful spot of wherever that wealth would go. (Several of the projects person backing besides coming from different sources.)

$350 cardinal would spell toward roadworthy projects similar improvements to Philips Highway.
$129 cardinal would beryllium spent successful drainage improvements
$132 cardinal for the Emerald Trail, with immoderate projects already successful place.
$447 cardinal could beryllium utilized successful transit projects similar a caller Mayport ferry and dock
$247 cardinal would beryllium spent connected improvements to the Skyway

Beyond the section facet of this, Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to suspend the state’s state taxation opening successful July. However, that would necessitate legislative enactment that could hap arsenic soon arsenic this month.